Bronze cast of Stalin's death mask goes for auction

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A rare cast of the death mask of the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin will be auctioned in Shropshire later.
The cast was taken in bronze from the original plaster death mask by an art dealer who was visiting Moscow in 1990.
Richard Westwood-Brookes, from the Church Stretton based auction house Mullock's, said: "There are we believe only two of these in the West."
The auction also includes casts of Stalin's right hand and his withered left hand.
Mr Westwood-Brookes said that in official portraits the Soviet dictator always hid this physical deformity.
He said: "The casts that we have here show that his hand was a little withered thing, so you are seeing Stalin as he really was."
The guide price for the death mask is between £3,000 and £5,000.

Source: BBC News website

[Obs]

I'd bid, if I had the cash.

[Princess Luna]

$4000-$7600 for a replica of his death mask? I am not sure if that is insanely cheap or insanely expensive

[bcbm]

lets pool our cash and buy the fucker

[dodger]

lets pool our cash and buy the fucker

Bad-Bad-Bad move bcbm,there will be the mother of all tendency wars on ownership after we split. Witness Trotsky death mask saga Gerry Healy, WRP. Owner of the mask authentic heir to the mantle. I was once told I was not fit to polish his(Healy) shoes, by a steward at a public meeting. Indeed I was not. My first and last brush with Healy and his mask of authenticity.

[ComradeGrant]

I intend to die with the weirdest look on my face so my death mask makes people laugh.

[bcbm]

Bad-Bad-Bad move bcbm,there will be the mother of all tendency wars on ownership after we split. Witness Trotsky death mask saga Gerry Healy, WRP. Owner of the mask authentic heir to the mantle. I was once told I was not fit to polish his(Healy) shoes, by a steward at a public meeting. Indeed I was not. My first and last brush with Healy and his mask of authenticity.

everyone geets to have it for a month, order decided by drawing straws

[dodger]

everyone geets to have it for a month, order decided by drawing straws

You don't have the wisdom of Solomon,bcbm, but you have given us a useful working compromise. Get ready for the flak!!!

REVLEFT III HERE WE COME!!!



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[ColonelCossack]

eeeeeeeeeewwwwwww creepy

[Rooster]

You think if I bought it and used it as a toilet that some people here would be upset?

[workersadvocate]

Maybe turn it into a gong...
Just thinking out loud. LOL.

[GallowsBird]

Perfect costume for Halloween. Dress up as one of the west's biggest bogeymen! :tt2:

[Omsk]

Who would want that?!

[El Chuncho]

Aye, it is a bit freaky isn't, Omsk? :confused:

[Omsk]

To me it would be as same as having a mummy in your home.

[Agent Ducky]

I intend to die with the weirdest look on my face so my death mask makes people laugh.

http://myfacewhen.com/i/447.jpg
like this?

[ColonelCossack]

To me it would be as same as having a mummy in your home.

it would be like in star wars when they froze han solo.

[ColonelCossack]

It's funny that all the M-L's on this thread think the idea of having a mould of Stalin's face in their house would be creepy. Apart from Obs.

[The Man]

lets pool our cash and buy the fucker

HOLY SHIT. Lets do it

[El Chuncho]

To me it would be as same as having a mummy in your home.

Yeah. I'd not even buy the death mask of my own father, to be honest. Though if people want to buy death masks or mummies for insane prices I guess it is their choice.

[El Chuncho]

It's funny that all the M-L's on this thread think the idea of having a mould of Stalin's face in their house would be creepy. Apart from Obs.

Obs is a great poster, though, so he is allowed his eccentricities. :D

[ColonelCossack]

Yeah. I'd not even buy the death mask of my own father, to be honest. Though if people want to buy death masks or mummies for insane prices I guess it is their choice.

I'm gonna be really eccentric about how I'm disposed of. I'm gonna have different things done with different bits of me.

[ColonelCossack]

Obs is a great poster, though, so he is allowed his eccentricities. :D

SSSssshhh, or we'll be accused of "dick riding"!

[ComradeGrant]

I wonder what forced Ismail to sell it.

[Agent Ducky]

I wonder what forced Ismail to sell it.

+1 Internets to you, good sir.

[ColonelCossack]

I wonder what forced Ismail to sell it.

Da Fok? There is obviously only one force that is unstoppably collosal enough to do that.


A Honey Badger.

[Rusty Shackleford]

I wonder what forced Ismail to sell it.
here, have another internet.