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Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
Mark Fulford’s handcrafted Canada goose, made by the late Odessa-born and educated John M. Schmauder, will be going on the auction block to raise money for a business venture that Fulford has been working on for several months. See page 9 for a close-up picture of the detailed work that went into this piece of wood sculpture.
Whether you love or hate the Canada goose, you would have to admit that the one pictured above looks like the real thing.
In 1982, John M. Schmauder completed “The Wonder Deek,” as he titled it on the bottom of the platform bearing his carving, a decoy representating a very lifelike Canada goose. The goose is carved out of sugar pine, a wood particularly favored by woodworkers, according Mark Fulford, the current owner of the goose. Securely mounted on a wooden platform, it was carved and painted entirely by hand over many months. The bottom of the platform bears the artist’s signature and the...
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