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| East 61 street. Statue of Liberty |
There is one copy that stands near the building at East 61 that almost nobody know about.
The story began in 1920s
when Max Stern emigrated from
Weimar Germany to the U.S. His textile
business became unprofitable and Max decided to go to U.S.
In order to earn money he brought 2,100 canaries from Germany
to sell on the U.S. market. Next thirty
years Max had been selling caged birds, bird cages and other
pet bird supplies to U.S. through Woolworth's stores. Stern named his family
business Hartz Mountain Corporation (HMC) after the Harz Mountains of Germany.
Later Max became the
vice-chairman of the board of
trustees of Yeshiva University for whom its Stern College for Women was named.
His son Leonard initial wealth was inherited from his father
who died in 1982. Leonard Stern is
listed by Forbes magazine as a billionaire and New York University's business school is
named after him. In 2011 Leonard has acquired a rare 9-foot-tall scale-model
replica of the Statue of Liberty.
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| Musée des Arts et Métiers |
For more than 100
years, the original Statue of Liberty plaster sculpture could not be reproduced
for fear that it would be damaged in the process. A new digital imaging process
was developed without damaging the original. The statue was recast using the
classic lost wax method. Leonard Stern,
the owner of the replica, says it's the
only model in in the United States. Only 12 bronzes are being made. The other bronze copy the on view in the Musée des Arts et Métiers,
This replica cost
more than $1M US, and was installed in New York in October 2011.
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