April 23 & 24, 2026

Decoys & Sporting Art

Lombard, Illinois

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For professional soccer players it’s the World Cup, football players the Super Bowl, for cyclists it’s the Tour de France, and hockey players the Stanley Cup. In the “sport” of decoy collecting it’s this! The Jim and Diane Cook collection – Sessions I thru V, and it begins here, with this catalog.

Not since the early 1970’s, with the series of auctions featuring the extensive collection of William J. Mackey Jr, has the collecting community had such an outstanding opportunity to acquire rare and important North American waterfowl decoys. While Mackey was known for quantity, the Cook’s have been and always will be known for quality and rarity. Over the last 45 years, Jim and Diane have been tremendous stewards of these important artifacts and now the caretaking of these works will be spread among the collecting community. Like many important pieces from the Mackey auctions, some of these decoys may not be offered again for decades, if ever.

To say that we at Guyette and Deeter are honored to have been chosen to handle the sale of this collection for the Cook family, would be a gross understatement. For more than 40 years our organization has pushed itself to serve the collecting community in the best ways possible, both sellers and buyers. We understand the magnitude of this event within the history of the decoy market and have made a tremendous effort into introducing the collecting world to the Jim and Diane Cook collection. We hope you enjoy and good luck!

The Guyette and Deeter Team

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