A piece of Lady Liberty’s Nose

The auction, set for Sept. 24 at the Park Avenue armory, includes such other icons as the last home-run ball hit at the original Yankee Stadium, Barbra Streisand’s first test record and a photo negative from Marilyn Monroe’s nude calendar shoot.

It also offers a curious piece of history, a copper chunk of nose, crafted to fit Lady Liberty’s face during her 1980s restoration, which will be auctioned next month.

According to Arlan Ettinger, president of Guernsey’s Auction House, “It’s the tip of the nose with the area around the nostrils. It doesn’t sound like it would be, but it’s fairly attractive looking”.

It’s a 2-foot-long section and was one of four created to replace the Statue of Liberty’s weather-worn sniffer, but again according to Ettinger , “it’s the only one that likely will ever be sold”.It seems one was used in the historic nose job, another was destroyed, and the third belongs to a private collector.

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