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| American Brant Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  American Brant Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Signed "by W.H. Gilley" on underside of base ; undated | |||
| Green-winged Teal Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Green-winged Teal Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Marked "G. Winged Teal" and signed "by W. H. Gilley" on underside of base | |||
| Great Blue Heron Pair Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Great Blue Heron Pair Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Pair of adult herons on roughly "x" shaped driftwood mount. On lower right arm of the "x" a heron in hunting posture is loosely mounted. On upper arm of the x, another heron is depicted in a guarding posture. Twin metal-strip crest, glass eyes, metal feet and legs realistically painted. Signed "Gilley" on top side of sand-finished oblong base, lower right. | |||
| Canada Goose Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Bald Eagle With Redhead Duck Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Bald Eagle With Redhead Duck Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Signed "Gilley" on driftwood base. No date | |||
| Mallard Pair Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Mallard Pair Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Signed "Gilley" on left side of driftwood base; no date | |||
| Saw-whet Owl Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Saw-whet Owl Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Owl perched on U-shaped branch mounted on flat wooden base. "Gilly" faintly visible on base near bottom of branch. Inscribed "Saw Whet Owl made for Evelyn Foss" and stamped "Wendell H. Gilley" on underside of base. No date visible. | |||
| Common eider pair Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Common eider pair Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Male eider perched on carved rock facing female. Female faces forward on the carved wooden base. Underside marked Northern eiders by W.H. Gilley, S.W. Harbor, Maine. No date. | |||
| Black Capped Chickadee, Pair Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Northern Cardinal, Male Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Northern Cardinal, Male Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Adult male perched facing downward on driftwood branch attached to carved oblong base. Glass eyes ; wire and metal legs and feet. Oval pine base gouged and stained ; underside of base covered in felt. No visible signature or date | |||
| Goldfinch Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Tit on a Vise Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Tit on a Vise Wendell Gilley Museum | |||
| Northern Cardinal Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Vesper Sparrow Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| White-winged Crossbill Pair Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  White-winged Crossbill Pair Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Signed "Gilley" on front of driftwood base. No date | |||
| Downy Woodpecker on Birch Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Downy Woodpecker on Birch Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Downy woodpecker perched on birch "tree" mounted on carved oblong wooden base. Signed "Gilley" on bottom of birch ; no date | |||
| Cormorant Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Cormorant Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Neck extended and head turned to the right. Glass eyes, metal legs and feet. Driftwood base, no visible signature or date | |||
| Blue-winged Teal Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Quail Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Quail Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Quail standing on mound shaped wooden base, one leg lifted. Very faded signature on underside of base. No date visible. | |||
| Chickadee Pair Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Chickadee Pair Wendell Gilley Museum Description: One chickadee hanging upside down near top of branch above second chickadee perched on lower part of branch. Branch attached to carved oval wooden base. Underside of base inscribed "Chickadees by Wendell Gilley S.W. Harbor, Maine. No date visible. | |||
| Redhead drake Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Roadrunner Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Roadrunner Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Adult male roadrunner in a typical "striding" position, head outstretched with slightly dropped wings. Minimal carved detail, more developed painted detail. Glass eyes, wire legs, metal feet. Mounted on oval pine base, gouge-carved and painted. Marked on underside of base in ballpoint pen: "Road Runner"; signed "Gilley" on lower edge of top of base. No date | |||
| Blue Jay with Acorn Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Blue Jay with Acorn Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Blue jay with real acorn in its beak perched on driftwood branch on oval base ; wire and metal legs and feet ; glass eyes ; signed "Gilley" on front of base ; no date | |||
| Patterns by Wendell Gilley Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Patterns by Wendell Gilley Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Loose-leaf binder containing photocopies of bird carving patterns drawn by Wendell Gilley. Index of patterns in front pocket of binder. | ||
| Bobwhite Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Bobwhite Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Single bobwhite quail carved by Wendell Gilley that is part of group shown mounted over a fireplace in another photograph. | ||
| Bobwhite Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Bobwhite Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Photograph of an interior showing a grouping of bobwhite quail carved by Wendell Gilley mounted over a fireplace . | ||
| Bobwhite Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Bobwhite Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Partial view of a group of bobwhite quail carved by Wendell Gillley shown mounted over a fireplace in another photograph. | ||
| Bald Eagle Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Bald Eagle Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Photograph of bald eagle carved by Wendell H. Gilley. Marked "Finished June 1966" on reverse side. | ||
| Canada Geese, Pair Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Canada Geese, Pair Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Photograph of a pair of Canada geese carved by Wendell H. Gilley | ||
| Bald Eagle With Fish Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Bald Eagle With Fish Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Photograph of bald eagle, perched with wings spread above fish on oval base, carved by Wendell H. Gilley. Marked "Eagle with fish by Wendell Gilley" in ink on reverse side. | ||
| Mallard Plaque Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Mallard Plaque Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Carving of a half-bodied mallard duck in flight superimposed on a painted scene of shoreline and water ; duck approximately seven inches long, six inches high ; both legs are broken off and missing ; traces of practice painting on reverse ; edges painted silver ; signed bottom right "Gilley" | |||
| Canada Geese Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Canada Geese Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Pair of Canada geese on driftwood base ; Signed "W.H. Gilley" on underside ; no date apparent. | |||
| Jumping Fish Relief Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Jumping Fish Relief Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Carved and painted fish jumping out of water painted on board. Hook for hanging on top edge. Unsigned. No date. | |||
| Great Gray Owl Plaque Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Pileated Woodpecker Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Pileated Woodpecker Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Adult male in a naturalistic, though simplified pose, mounted on the larger prong of a smooth, two-pronged driftwood branch ; ovoid gouge-carved pine base ; glass eyes, wire legs and broadly-spread toes gripping driftwood "tree". Signed "Gilley" on back of driftwood mount near the base. No date | |||
| Black Duck, Pair Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Black Duck, Pair Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Flat bottom, swimming, appear to have been once attached to something, no signature or date | |||
| Bobwhite Quail, Pair Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Bobwhite Quail, Pair Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Glass eyes, wire legs and feet, carved and painted detail. Mounted on driftwood base. Signed "Gilley" on right rear of base, no date | |||
| Herring Gull Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Herring Gull Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Herring gull perched on wooden post. No date or signature visible. Stamp "W.H. Gilley" visible under white paint between legs. Bird detaches from base. | |||
| Woodcock Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Woodcock Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Woodcock on driftwood base ; head turned slightly to the right. Signed "Gilley" on right side of base ; inscribed "Woodcock by W. H. Gilley" on underside of base. No date visible. | |||
| Mallard Drake Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Mallard Drake Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Male mallard mounted on driftwood attached to smooth painted wooden base ; signed "Gilley" in light grey on front of base; no visible date | |||
| Ring-necked Ducks, Pair Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Ring-necked Ducks, Pair Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Signed "Gilley" on right of carved wooden base. Underside of base marked "'Ring-neck Ducks' by Wendell Gilley, Southwest Harbor Maine ; Made especially for Dr. Claud F. Young". Not dated. | |||
| Black-capped Chickadee Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Black-capped Chickadee Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Chickadee with head down perched on driftwood branch attached to carved oval wooden base ; glass eyes, wire legs and feet ; signed "Gilley" on rear left of base ; no date visible | |||
| Black-capped Chickadee Pair Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Black-capped Chickadee Pair Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Two Chickadees mounted on driftwood branch attached to carved wooden base ; upper bird is upside down, lower bird faces out from branch ; glass eyes, wire legs and feet ; no visible date ; signed "Gilley" on rear of base. | |||
| Bald Eagle Family Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Bald Eagle Family Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Family of bald eagles, the female perched on the edge of the nest containing two chicks, the male on a branch above with wings spread ; signed "Gilley" on base ; no visible date | |||
| Eagles Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Eagles Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Typescript draft of a section included in The Art of Bird Carving by Wendell Gilley describing his techniques for carving eagles. | |||
| Common Loon Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Great Blue Heron Pair Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Great Blue Heron Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Great Blue Heron Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Figure permanently mounted on round footed base, intended to be covered with a glass dome. Top of base is a 3/4 inch diameter inner-ground of fine sand. Heron has cast lead legs and feet, lead-strip crest feathers, glass eyes. Signed "Gilley" on side of driftwood "stump" below left side of bird ; no date. | |||
| Woodcock Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Woodcock Wendell Gilley Museum Description: No base ; carved from balsa wood ; glass eyes, cast metal three-toed feet ; flat polychrome paint is applied in a somewhat stylized rather than strictly naturalistic, feather treatment ; Signed "Gilley" between feet below a small round hole ; no date | |||
| Black-capped Chickadee Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Black-capped Chickadee Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Smooth oval pine disc base with gnarled driftwood root ; midway up the driftwood is mounted the bird, carved in characteristic seed-opening position with tail braced downward and bill pointed at ground ; glass eyes, wire legs, and metal feet grasping "branch." Signed "Gilley" on top edge of base. No date | |||
| Herring Gulls Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Herring Gulls Wendell Gilley Museum Description: L-shaped driftwood branch serves as base for three gulls, positioned (left to right) taking off, raising wings, standing erect ; birds show totally different bill carvings, and the similar but minutely different paint indicates a transitional period (1940's?); unsigned | |||
| Bluebird, Pair Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Bluebird, Pair Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Adult male and female mounted on pine and twig base, the lower bird (female) in downward crouching position, the male perched on lower fork of twig ; wire legs and metal feet, glass eyes ; signed "Gilley" on carved base. | |||
| Herring Gull on Red Buoy Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Herring Gull on Red Buoy Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Gull in adult plumage, head erect and straight ahead, wing tips balanced high over tail, feet braced on a navigational buoy called a red nun. Glass eyes, wire legs and metal feet. Buoy painted with white Arabic numeral "4". Carved oval pine base, gouge-carved and painted to resemble sea water. No date visible. | |||
| Squirrel Ash Tray Holder Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Squirrel Ash Tray Holder Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Carved squirrel sitting on branch and holding a nut in its paws. Not dated. Signed "Gilley" on back of base | |||
| Wood Duck, Pair Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Black-backed Gull Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Drawing of Chipmunk, Beaver, and Black Bear Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Drawing of Chipmunk, Beaver, and Black Bear Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Pencil drawing on tracing paper sent to Donald Fenner from Wendell Gilley ; undated | ||
| Guestbooks Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Guestbooks Wendell Gilley Museum Description: 3 Guestbooks containing signatures of Wendell Gilley's visitors from March 1944 - Nov. 1951, July 24, 1971 - July 9, 1974, and July 12, 1974 - June 13, 1977. 1 notebook listing names of visitors to his workshop between May 1970 and July 24, 1971 | |||
| Common Loon Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Spotted and Solitary Sandpipers Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Spotted and Solitary Sandpipers Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Solitary sandpiper perched with wings upright on driftwood branch ; spotted sandpiper standing, body tilted downward, on carved oblong base. Signed "Gilley" on left front of oblong base ; no date | |||
| Christmas Card from Addie and Wendell Gilley Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Christmas Card from Addie and Wendell Gilley Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Christmas card featuring a pair of carved wood ducks on a piece of driftwood. No date. Signed "Addie & Wendell Gilley" | ||
| Desk calendar Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Desk calendar Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Printed date on calendar is 1955 but it appears the Gilleys reused calendar pages to record events in subsequent years. | |||
| Long-tailed duck Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Long-tailed duck Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Marked "Old Squaw (cock) by W.H. Gilley" on underside of base ; no date | |||
| Woodcock Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Spotted sandpiper Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Spotted sandpiper Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Signed "by W.H. Gilley" on underside of driftwood base ; no date | |||
| King Eider Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Bald Eagle Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Bobwhite Quail, Pair Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Bobwhite Quail, Pair Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Signed "Gilley" on front left of base ; no date | |||
| Herring Gull Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Herring Gull Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Herring Gull Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Signed "Gilley" on right side of base ; Gilley's stamp on underside of base ; no date | |||
| Great Egret Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Herring Gull on Piling Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Herring Gull on Piling Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Gilley's stamp on underside of base, no date visible | |||
| Canvasback Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Mallard Drake Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Herring gull Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Shoveler Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Green-winged Teal Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Green-winged Teal Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Relief of bird in flight; carved and painted detail; unsigned; not dated. | |||
| Ring-necked Pheasant Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Ring-necked Pheasant Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Relief of bird in flight; hook for hanging; no signature or date | |||
| Mallard, Female Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Mallard, Female Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Flat bottom, swimming. No signature or date. Appears to have once been attached to something | |||
| Mallard Drake Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Mallard Drake Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Underside of base marked "Mallard"; "by W. H. Gilley" written on piece of tape affixed below "Mallard" | |||
| Northern Cardinal Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Northern Cardinal Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Signed "Gilley" on front of driftwood branch ; no date | |||
| Mallard, Female Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Mallard, Female Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Signed "Gilley" on driftwood base ; underside of base marked "Joe Simmons"and "Dana Fife" | |||
| Canada Goose Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Common Tern, Pair Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Common Tern, Pair Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Signed "Gilley" on left side of driftwood base ; no date | |||
| Wood Stork Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Osprey with Flounder on Branch Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Osprey with Flounder on Branch Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Signed "Gilley" on right front of oblong base ; no date | |||
| Pintail, Pair Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Pintail, Pair Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Signed "Gilley" in white on right front of oblong base ; marked "Pintail ducks by W.H. Gilley" on underside of base ; no date | |||
| Great Blue Heron Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Great Blue Heron Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Signed "Gilley" on right front of driftwood base ; no date | |||
| Black Duck, Female Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Black Duck, Female Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Female preening on burl base. Signed "Gilley" on right front of base. Stamped "Gilley" on underside of base. No date | |||
| Ruffed Grouse Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Ruffed Grouse Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Signed "Gilley" in white on top left of base ; no date | |||
| Bald Eagle Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Mallard Pair Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Mallard Pair Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Signed "Gilley" on left side of base. Marked "Mallard's" on underside of base. Has artist's stamp on underside of base. No date | |||
| Mallard Drake Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Red Legged Black Duck Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Red Legged Black Duck Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Signed "Gilley" on top right of base. "National Woodcarvers Association Member"stamped on underside of base. No date | |||
| Pileated Woodpecker Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Pileated Woodpecker Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Inscribed "Pileated Woodpecker by W. H. Gilley" on underside of base ; no date | |||
| Herring Gull Pair Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Herring Gull Pair Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Signed on bottom of base: "by W. H. Gilley" ; no date | |||
| Red Phalarope Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Red Phalarope Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Signed "Gilley" on carved oblong base; no date; marked on underside of base "female in breeding plumage" | |||
| Bald Eagle Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Bald Eagle Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Signed "Gilley" on driftwood base. Driftwood base attached to sand covered oblong base | |||
| Double-crested Cormorant, Pair Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Double-crested Cormorant, Pair Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Signed "Gillely" on right front of driftwood base. Has wall hanger | |||
| Black Capped Chickadee, Pair Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Polar Bear Diorama Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Goldfinch Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Goldfinch Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Carroll Drug Store sticker affixed to green felt on underside of base. "7" written in ink on sticker. | |||
| Herring Gull Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Black-backed Gull Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Black-backed Gull Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Swimming; made of balsa wood. Signed "W. Gilley" on bottom. No. date | |||
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|  Stuffed Snow Owl Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: This taxidermy snow owl was created by Wendell Holmes Gilley and is kept at the Wendell Gilley Museum. |
