20 Winter Street
Pembroke, MA 02359
United States
Founded in 2005, Copley Fine Art Auctions is a boutique auction house specializing in antique decoys and American, sporting, and wildlife paintings. Over the course of the last two decades, the firm has set auction records for not only individual decoy makers, but also entire carving regions. Copley...Read more
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Jul 25, 2015 - Jul 26, 2015
Pelzer was a long time employee of the Milwaukee Public Museum and specialized in collecting big game specimens from around the world. He is said to have only made decoys for his own use and reported making just four widgeon for his rig.
Literature: T. Thompson Bosworth, "Museum Style Master: Walter Pelzer," "Decoy Magazine," Nov/Dec 2001, pp. 12-15, exact decoy illustrated.
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