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1. Box, Ammunition - Box for 12 gauge Holiday brand shotgun shells

   Box for 12 gauge Holiday brand shotgun shells, featuring the wildlife art of Les Kouba. The box depicts two flying grouse, one male and one female on one side. The other side has a picture of a rabbit running across the snow. It describes the shells as being: 25 in quantity, 2 3/4" long, 3 drams equivalent, 1 oz shot and shot size of 8. The bottom of the box discusses features of Holiday's shells. The sides show a diagram of the shells and enco...

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2. Box, Ammunition - Shotgun shell box

   Box for 12 gauge Holiday brand shotgun shells, featuring the wildlife art of Les Kouba. The box depicts two flying grouse, one male and one female on one side. The other side has a picture of a rabbit running across the snow. It describes the shells as being: 25 in quantity, 2 3/4" long, 3 drams equivalent, 1 oz shot and shot size of 8. The bottom of the box discusses features of Holiday's shells. The sides show a diagram of the shells and enco...

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3. Bucket, Ice - Ice bucket

   Thermal ice bucket with cover & side handles. Brown plastic with wildlife images on white by Les C. Kouba, including large pheasant and smaller duck, goose, & ruffed grouse prints. Matches pitcher 2016-0092-002.

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4. Lamp - Wall beer lamp and copper fixture

   Wall beer lamp containing copper ring fixture with extended prong for lamp shade. Copper ring has a small red label with white letters"Schmidt" and a small blue label with white letters "The Brew that Grew with the Great Northwest." The long narrow lampshade has 4 scenes in color designed and signed by Les Kouba of fish, cowboys, pheasants, and pronghorns, with word "Schmidt" in red letters above each picture and 2 blue stripes with white lette...

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5. Lamp - Wall beer lamp and copper fixture

   Wall beer lamp containing copper ring fixture with extended prong for lamp shade. Copper ring has a small red label with white letters"Schmidt" and a small blue label with white letters "The Brew that Grew with the Great Northwest." The long narrow lampshade has 4 scenes in color designed and signed by Les Kouba of fish, cowboys, pheasants, and pronghorns, with word "Schmidt" in red letters above each picture and 2 blue stripes with white lette...

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6. Mural - Kouba "Elk Country" mural, c.1936

   Mural "Elk Country" painted by Les C. Kouba of a large bull elk with a background of trees and Alpine lake in the Rocky Mountains being pursued by a predator mountain lion. Kouba painted it in 1936 when he was going to school in payment for his meals at Al Lake's Cafe, Hutchinson, MN. Kouba remembered that the financial deal with Al Lake was "X" amount in dollars and the balance in hamburgers, etc. The picture came with Rekow's Hamburger Shop ...

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7. Pitcher - Pitcher

   Thermo-Serve pitcher with cover & handle. Brown plastic with wildlife images on white by Les C. Kouba, including large pheasant and smaller duck, goose, & ruffed grouse prints. Matches ice bucket 2016-0092-001.

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8. Print - "Antelope in Ranch Country"

   Framed press proof of the print "Antelope in Ranch Country" painted by Minnesota wildlife artist Les C. Kouba. A group of antelope have come to drink at a old wooden windmill and water hole. A doe is enjoying the rancher’s salt lick, and the buck in the foreground is ever alert and watching over his band. One of six prints in the American Classic series. Signed at lower right corner. Wood frame; glass. This painting is Les Kouba’s tribute to...

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9. Print - "Big Bills' Barrel'n In"

   Framed print "Big 'Bills' Barrel'n In" painted by Minnesota wildlife artist Les C. Kouba. A flock of thirteen Bluebill ducks are landing. Three are in the foreground. Considered Kouba's best and most sought after Bluebill print. Published in 1972 by the American Wildlife Art Galleries. 788/1000. Signed by Les Kouba in lower right corner. Wood frame with gold border; glass. Kouba: "Big Bills was inspired by a trip to Jimmy Robinson’s Duck Camp...

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10. Print - "Bills Arriving"

    Framed print "'Bills Arriving" painted by Minnesota wildlife artist Les Kouba. Set near Marshall, Minnesota, this painting is where the diver ducks would channel through by Lake Arco and Lake Hendricks. "I had this mental picture of the way those ducks would come in. I’ll always remember the wind and the pretty good rollers." [The Legacy of Les C. Kouba] Signed by Les Kouba in lower right corner. Wood frame; glass.

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11. Print - "Blues, Snows, Rain & Barley"

    Framed print "Blues, Snow, Rain and Barley" painted by Minnesota wildlife artist Les Kouba. A flock of Blue & Snow Geese is landing to join thirteen others in a barley field studded with puddles from rain. A grain elevator, CN boxcar and farmstead is in the background. The elevator sign reads "Prairie Co-op Elevator Association, Pool No. 13, Service at Cost." 1061/2500. Signed by Les Kouba in lower right corner. Wood frame; glass. The snow goo...

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12. Print - Bow hunter - Les Kouba, 1950s

    Framed "Bow Hunter" deer print from painting by Les C. Kouba. The artist painted a couple of hunters bow hunting whitetail deer. If you look closely you will see the second hunter in the distance pushing the swamp. The buck is stopped looking back as the hunter in the foreground is at full draw and taking aim on the big whitetail buck through the birch trees. Snow covers the ground. Bow hunting is much more of a challenge than other methods of hu...

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13. Print - "Bye Bye Blackbird"

    Framed print "Bye Bye Blackbird" painted by Minnesota wildlife artist Les Kouba. A large Muskie is about to eat a red winged blackbird. 204/2000. Signed by Les Kouba in lower right corner. Wood frame; glass. Kouba once witnessed a Muskie actually catching a black bird off the rushes at the north end of Leech Lake. When black birds migrate in the fall of the year they often feed on the wild rice grown in the shallows of Minnesota's northern lakes...

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14. Print - "Cans in Bush Country"

    Framed print "Cans in Bush Country" painted by Minnesota wildlife artist Les Kouba. Thirteen canvasback ducks find water in the snowy north woods. 844/1500. Signed by Les Kouba in lower right corner. Wood frame; glass.

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15. Print - "Cans in Lifting Fog"

    Framed print "Cans in Lifting Fog" painted by Minnesota wildlife artist Les Kouba. In this painting Kouba painted a flock of canvasback ducks gathering in a quiet bay in the morning. Five of thirteen ducks are in the foreground. The fog is beginning to break. The morning sun is burning through the lifting fog. "Cans In Lifting Fog" was published in 1983. 104/2500. Signed by Les Kouba in lower right corner. Wood frame; glass. The canvasback duck ...

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16. Print - "Christmas 1986"

    Framed print and commemorative plate "Christmas 1986" by Minnesota wildlife artist Les Kouba. The image depicts a serene Christmas Eve night. The Christmas Star shines brightly over a rural home nestled in the pines. The lighted Christmas Tree in the window casts its warm glow on the fresh fallen snow outside and illuminates the moose antlers hung directly above the window. Icicles dangle from the roof and smoke curls from the chimney as a maje...

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17. Print - Coots Unlimited stamp & print

    Framed 1988-2088 Coots Unlimited $5 mock Stamp and Print designed by wildlife artist Les Kouba. Pictures a pair of coots with eleven others in the distance on water. Print is signed by Les C. Kouba at lower right. Black wood frame; glass. One of "Kouba's Fun Stamps". The stamp has "Common Coot (Mud Hen, Rice Hen)" written on one side.

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18. Print - Cornfed Ringnecks print, Les C. Kouba

    Unframed Les Kouba print "Cornfed Ringnecks". Artist signature at lower right. A pair of Chinese Ringneck pheasants are looking for a meal in a snow-covered cornfield. A limited edition upland game bird art print by a nationally known artist who believed in placing his sujects in their natural habitat and stroe to create a feeling of season, place and circumstance.

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19. Print - Corn for Lunch, Les Kouba print

    Unframed Les Kouba print "Corn for Lunch". Artist signature at lower right. Limited edition of 2500. A lone raccoon is getting a free lunch from a farmer's cornfield by snacking on an ear of corn. Mr. Kouba, a nationally known artist, believed in placing his subjects in their natural habitat to create a feeliing of season, place and circumstance.

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20. Print - "Corn Pickin' in the 1930's"

    Framed press proof of the print "Corn Pickin’ in the 1930’s" painted by Minnesota wildlife artist Les C. Kouba. This is the fourth print in the six print American classic series. Signed at lower right corner. Wood frame; glass. Corn, when ready for harvest, is left standing in the field, and when the "ear no longer creaks when wrung," it is ready to be picked. The artist remembers picking corn by hand in earlier decades before mechanization. Cor...

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