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Clark Voorhees enlisted the help of Wildfowler Decoys' founder, Ted Mulliken, in nearby Old Saybrook, Connecticut, to initially aid in the carving of his whales. His whale-carving business was later moved to its permanent home in Vermont. Many of his carvings were sold through the Four Winds Shop on Nantucket. A rare eighteen-inch-long, full-bodied whale carving by Clark Voorhees, the son of Clark Greenwood Voorhees (1871-1933), one of the founders of the Old Lyme Art Colony. Full-bodied carved whale models are among the rarest of Voorhees' marine mammal carvings. Only a few are known to have come to market in the past decade. Signed on the bottom of the attached base with an incised "CV" and stamped "C VOORHEES." Signed "CV" on bottom of whale.