Steve is a fourth-generation sportsman with a refined collector’s eye and over thirty years of experience in the antiques, decoys, and fine art trade. His niche businesses have come to set the industry standard in the sporting art and antique decoy fields. Steve has established dozens of world-record prices for decoys and paintings. Having published several books on decoys and sporting art, he is widely acknowledged as the preeminent expert and one of the most respected ambassadors in these highly specialized fields.

Cinnie has worked at Copley since its inception in 2005 and before that was the gallery director at Stephen O’Brien Jr. Fine Arts. She manages the finances and business operations at Copley. With over twenty years of experience in the sporting art world, Cinnie oversees auction logistics, catalog production, and day-to-day operations.

As a decoy specialist at Copley for over a decade, Colin helps clients to manage and develop their collections. He also lectures and writes with a focus on advancing the use of x-rays and ultraviolet light to spot fakes and forgeries in the decoy world. Colin is an artist and decoy carver, as well as a birder and sportsman. He graduated with honors from the College of Charleston, where his art and biology degrees informed his expertise in the specialized world of bird carvings and wildlife art.

Leah is a fine art specialist at Copley. She lectures regularly at the American Museum of Western Art—The Anschutz Collection in Denver, Colorado. She attended the Courtauld Institute of Art in London as a Deborah Loeb Brice Scholar, and is a graduate of Princeton University, where she was awarded the Stella and Rensselaer W. Lee Senior Thesis Prize and the Grace May Tilton Prize in Fine Arts for her senior thesis on American painter Charles Burchfield. She is an accredited appraiser with the Appraisers Association of America and can provide USPAP (Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice) compliant appraisals.

Having worked in pharmaceutical sales and training, Debbie brings solid marketing and sales experience to Copley. She has also been a consultant in the decoy field for the last twenty-five years. Debbie works hand in hand with her husband, Jim, to help clients with their decoy acquisitioning and deaccessioning needs.

Debbie and Jim are founding members of the New Jersey Decoy Collectors Association (NJDCA), the Barnegat Bay Decoy and Gunning Show, and the Barnegat Bay Decoy Museum at Tuckerton Seaport.

Jim brings a half a century of experience in the decoy collecting field. He was mentored by well-known collectors/dealers John Hillman, Bud Ward, Henry Fleckenstein, and others and has worked with many prominent collectors assisting them with their collections. While Jim is widely known as a decoy specialist covering all regions, his knowledge and tenure as a dealer in the New Jersey and the Delaware River fields is truly unmatched.

Jim served as the vice president and now sits on the board of the Barnegat Bay Decoy Museum at Tuckerton Seaport. Jim was recently placed in the New Jersey Decoy Collectors Association’s Hall of Fame for his contributions to the field of decoy collecting.

Chelsie is a writer, editor, and cataloger at Copley. She co-authored Elmer Crowell: Father of American Bird Carving, the most thorough publication on the maker to date and is currently researching and writing a book on Nantucket shorebird decoys. She graduated with honors from Brown University, and her English major has been an asset to her work at Copley. Chelsie has worked for the firm since 2014. She also manages Copley’s PR and social media. When she is not writing, you will find her out on the bay kitesurfing as one of the sport’s pioneering women.

Michelle joined Copley’s team in 2021 as an office administrator. She provides exceptional support to the Copley team and ensures the office runs smoothly. Michelle also assists with cataloging fine art and antiques and as a photo stylist. Her can-do attitude is infectious and she goes out of her way to make anyone that visits the Copley gallery feel welcome. She also teaches tennis to children in her spare time.

Eileen is a creative director with over twenty-five years of experience producing award-winning graphics and photography. She is a powerhouse of creative ideas with a sixth sense for design. Eileen joined Copley in 2017 and handles all the photography and design. A lover of lakes and ponds, her passion for waterfowl photography has produced many stunning images. The entire Copley team looks forward to what Eileen will come up with next.