Master Woodcarver Richard A. Young Collection
Listing ID#: 783160

Sale Location
Manitowoc, WI 54983

Sale Dates and TimesSALE IS COMPLETED
Saturday May 31, 2025 Completed

Sale Type
Live Auction

Company Information
Gallery 10, LLC Contact: Ted Radtke Phone: 920-538-2159 Email: contact@gallery10llc.com Website: www.gallery10llc.com EstateSale.com ID#: 10152 View company information and listings

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Listing Terms and Conditions
Cash, Valid Check or Credit Card. All credit card transactions include a 3.5% convenience fee. NO BUYERS PREMIUM on any items sold at live auction with an exception for items purchased via absentee or phone bidding. Any winning absentee or phone bids will be assessed a 10% buyers fee on each item purchased. All items sold “as is, where is”. Purchased items are to be removed from premises on the day of sale unless prior arrangements are made. Announcements made the day of sale take precedence over printed and other material.

Listing Terms and Conditions

Cash, Valid Check or Credit Card. All credit card transactions include a 3.5% convenience fee. NO BUYERS PREMIUM on any items sold at live auction with an exception for items purchased via absentee or phone bidding. Any winning absentee or phone bids will be assessed a 10% buyers fee on each item purchased. All items sold “as is, where is”. Purchased items are to be removed from premises on the day of sale unless prior arrangements are made. Announcements made the day of sale take precedence over printed and other material.

Listing Information
Saturday, May 31st The Inn on Maritime Bay 101 Maritime Drive, Manitowoc, Wisconsin 54220 8:30 A.M preview, 10:00 A.M. start For a full photo gallery of over 200 images, visit gallery10llc.com Master woodcarver Richard A. Young, after retiring as a professional ship model builder, which included three years as the resident ship modeler at the Manitowoc Maritime Museum, Richard focused on his first love, wood carving. He earned the title of master Carver by winning three Best of Show awards at major competitions throughout the Midwest. Many award-winning carvings were featured in Chip Chats and other trade publications. Richard was commissioned by what became Milwaukee’s Discovery World to design and carve the 4 by 6 foot donors’ plaque for building the sailing vessel Denis Sullivan, and by the South Shore Yacht Club to design and carve the Queen’s Cup Race trophies for six consecutive years. In 2007, the Kohler Foundation in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, partnered with the Rahr-West Art Museum in Manitowoc to preserve and exhibit 143 of Richard’s carvings. Some subjects include lifelike animals and humans, hats, dragons, busts, Chip carved bowls and boxes, and whimsical caricatures. The historical society in Almond, Wisconsin, Richard’s birthplace, has 17 carvings on display and his partially completed scratch-built model of HMS Royal Katherine (1664).
Auction License: 508-53

Listing Information

Saturday, May 31st

The Inn on Maritime Bay

101 Maritime Drive, Manitowoc, Wisconsin 54220

8:30 A.M preview, 10:00 A.M. start

For a full photo gallery of over 200 images, visit gallery10llc.com

Master woodcarver Richard A. Young, after retiring as a professional ship model builder, which included three years as the resident ship modeler at the Manitowoc Maritime Museum, Richard focused on his first love, wood carving. He earned the title of master Carver by winning three Best of Show awards at major competitions throughout the Midwest. Many award-winning carvings were featured in Chip Chats and other trade publications.

Richard was commissioned by what became Milwaukee’s Discovery World to design and carve the 4 by 6 foot donors’ plaque for building the sailing vessel Denis Sullivan, and by the South Shore Yacht Club to design and carve the Queen’s Cup Race trophies for six consecutive years.

In 2007, the Kohler Foundation in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, partnered with the Rahr-West Art Museum in Manitowoc to preserve and exhibit 143 of Richard’s carvings. Some subjects include lifelike animals and humans, hats, dragons, busts, Chip carved bowls and boxes, and whimsical caricatures. The historical society in Almond, Wisconsin, Richard’s birthplace, has 17 carvings on display and his partially completed scratch-built model of HMS Royal Katherine (1664).

Auction License: 508-53

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Master Woodcarver Richard A. Young Collection

Gallery 10, LLC

Contact: Ted Radtke
Phone: 920-538-2159

The Inn on Maritime Bay 101 Maritime Drive
Manitowoc, WI 54983

Saturday May 31, 2025 Completed

Listing Details
Saturday, May 31st The Inn on Maritime Bay 101 Maritime Drive, Manitowoc, Wisconsin 54220 8:30 A.M preview, 10:00 A.M. start For a full photo gallery of over 200 images, visit gallery10llc.com Master woodcarver Richard A. Young, after retiring as a professional ship model builder, which included three years as the resident ship modeler at the Manitowoc Maritime Museum, Richard focused on his first love, wood carving. He earned the title of master Carver by winning three Best of Show awards at major competitions throughout the Midwest. Many award-winning carvings were featured in Chip Chats and other trade publications. Richard was commissioned by what became Milwaukee’s Discovery World to design and carve the 4 by 6 foot donors’ plaque for building the sailing vessel Denis Sullivan, and by the South Shore Yacht Club to design and carve the Queen’s Cup Race trophies for six consecutive years. In 2007, the Kohler Foundation in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, partnered with the Rahr-West Art Museum in Manitowoc to preserve and exhibit 143 of Richard’s carvings. Some subjects include lifelike animals and humans, hats, dragons, busts, Chip carved bowls and boxes, and whimsical caricatures. The historical society in Almond, Wisconsin, Richard’s birthplace, has 17 carvings on display and his partially completed scratch-built model of HMS Royal Katherine (1664).