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| Greater Roadrunner Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Greater Roadrunner Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Life-size adult "running" on mesquite base ; glass eyes, metal feet, carved, burned and painted detail ; carved circa 1977, painted and completed winter 1981. Unsigned. Companion piece 81.1.174. | ||
| Wendell Holmes Gilley at Work on a Goose Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Wendell Holmes Gilley at Work on a Goose Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Wendell Gilley painting a Canada Goose. Reverse side marked: "W SW '75" | ||
| Downeast Bird Carvings Exhibit Catalog Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Downeast Bird Carvings Exhibit Catalog Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Catalog of an exhibition of Wendell Gilley's bird carvings held at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia from October 29, 1976 through January 9, 1977 | |
| Atlantic Puffin Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Atlantic Puffin Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Underside of base marked: "Puffin by W. H. Gilley " ; signature "Gilley" burned into bottom of base | ||
| Letter from Wendell H. Gilley to Fred Clark, November 6, 1978 Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Letter from Wendell H. Gilley to Fred Clark, November 6, 1978 Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Letter to the President of Warren Tool Co., Fred Clark, containing Wendell Gilley's pencil illustrations of carving knives and blades | |
| Letter from Wendell H. Gilley to Fred Clark, December 2, 1979 Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Letter from Wendell H. Gilley to Fred Clark, December 2, 1979 Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Letter to the President of Warren Tool Co., Fred Clark, discussing carving knives and blades | |
| Letter from Wendell H. Gilley to Fred Clark, November 17, 1978 Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Letter from Wendell H. Gilley to Fred Clark, November 17, 1978 Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Letter to the President of Warren Tool Co., Fred Clark, concerning wood carving tools and ways of holding tools on a work bench. Also mentioned is a grouse carving loaned to Harry Meech, one of the founders of the National Carvers Museum. | |
| Christmas Card from Addie and Wendell Gilley, 1976 Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Christmas Card from Addie and Wendell Gilley, 1976 Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Christmas card featuring a carved barn owl on a piece of driftwood. Signed "Addie & Wendell Gilley." Marked "Xmas 1976" on reverse side of card | |
| Woodcock Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Woodcock Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Label affixed to underside of base: "American Woodcock, 1971 ; Addie Gilley Collection" | ||
| Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr. Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr. Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Thank you letter for a gift of a carved pair of ruffed grouse | |
| Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr. Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr. Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Letter describing the making of 36 duck decoys.. O'brien also mentions picking up a finished woodcock from Gilley. | |
| Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr. Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr. Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Letter discusses sending text, artwork, and photos for the book, Art of Bird Carving, to Byron Cheever. Flying goose, bob-white and blue quail carvings are also mentioned. | |
| Letter from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr. to Belton Kleberg (B. K.) Johnson, May 6, 1971 Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Letter from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr. to Belton Kleberg (B. K.) Johnson, May 6, 1971 Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Letter describes a carving of a blue quail and bobwhite purchased by Johnson | |
| Wild Turkey Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Wild Turkey Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Underside of base marked: "Wild Turkey made for Hilda and Hulda Bragdon Christmas 1974 by Wendell Gilley" | ||
| Mallard Drake Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Mallard Drake Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Marked "Model made by Donal C. O'Brien, Jr. Carved on a carving machine. Assembled + painted by Wendell Gilley." Has round label "1M" on bottom. | ||
| Goldfinch Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Goldfinch Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Underside of base marked "Goldfinch by W.H. Gilley to Jeff Morrill" ; dated 1977. | ||
| Indian Games, Toys and Pastimes of Maine and the Maritimes Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Indian Games, Toys and Pastimes of Maine and the Maritimes Northeast Harbor Library Description: Bulletin X of The Robert Abbe Museum, Bar Harbor. Illustrated by Alice Dengler. | ||
| Carving of School of Fish Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Carving of School of Fish Northeast Harbor Library Description: Charles Savage carving of school of fish. | ||
| Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr. Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr. Wendell Gilley Museum Description: This letter thanks Gilley for sending a vise. O'Brien also encloses correspondence with Byron Cheever about publishing Gilley's book. | |
| Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr. Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr. Wendell Gilley Museum Description: This letter acknowledges receipt of a letter and chisel from Gilley, and discusses various carvings including a spotted sandpiper on a mussel shell and two pairs of quail | |
| Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr. Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr. Wendell Gilley Museum Description: O'Brien acknowledges receipt of a spotted sandpiper carving from Gilley and discusses a handle Gillely designed for an X-Acto blade as well as decoy designs. | |
| Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr. Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr. Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Note from O'Brien included with a copy of a letter from Byron Cheever. O'Brien mentions having been asked by Peggy Rockefeller if Gilley would sell her a flock of geese. | |
| Letter to Byron Cheever from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr. Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Letter to Byron Cheever from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr. Wendell Gilley Museum Description: This letter praises Wendell Gilley's inventiveness, his carving and his book . O'Brien refers to a vise for holding decoys and carvings for painting that Wendell includes in the book. | |
| Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Byron Cheever Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Byron Cheever Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Cheever writes that he has received the materials for Gilley's book and that he read the new chapter on decoys and thought it was well done. He also talks about meeting carver Harold Haertel in Chicago at a meeting of decoy collectors. | |
| Wendell H. Gilley, September 1974 Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Wendell H. Gilley, September 1974 Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Wendell Gilley next to a shelf holding carving of Canada geese |