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Bronze cast of Stalin's death mask goes for auction
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
I'd bid, if I had the cash.
$4000-$7600 for a replica of his death mask? I am not sure if that is insanely cheap or insanely expensive
lets pool our cash and buy the fucker
'heavens above, how awful it is to live outside the law - one is always expecting what one rightly deserves.'
petronius, the satyricon
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.
Night has one thousand eyes
I intend to die with the weirdest look on my face so my death mask makes people laugh.
I see good points in nearly all sections of the socialist left.
I am in love with all Anarchists.
"All you punks want is a anarchy" -Fascist troll
everyone geets to have it for a month, order decided by drawing straws
'heavens above, how awful it is to live outside the law - one is always expecting what one rightly deserves.'
petronius, the satyricon
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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Night has one thousand eyes
eeeeeeeeeewwwwwww creepy
Da Fok?
You think if I bought it and used it as a toilet that some people here would be upset?
Maybe turn it into a gong...
Just thinking out loud. LOL.
Perfect costume for Halloween. Dress up as one of the west's biggest bogeymen!
[FONT=Arial Narrow]"Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts."[/FONT] [FONT=Arial Narrow]- Joseph Stalin.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial Narrow]"History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce." [/FONT][FONT=Arial Narrow]- Karl Marx[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial Narrow]"Wah-wah-wah I threw my dummy out of the pram"- Sam_b[/FONT]
Who would want that?!
Aye, it is a bit freaky isn't, Omsk?
''Don't buy bread with that money, hombre! Buy dynamite! Dynamite!''
- Fidel Castro
To me it would be as same as having a mummy in your home.
like this?
FKA Comrade Ducky
Question everything, answer to no one.
MAKE TOTAL DESTROY, not war.
"This duck is a nuclear duck and it's time the world started calling a duck a duck."-Benjamin Netanyahu
"I reject your reality and substitute my own."- Adam Savage
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.
Da Fok?
HOLY SHIT. Lets do it
"Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not want our enemies to have guns, so why should we let them have ideas?" - Joseph Stalin
"Here, in the Soviet Union, I am not a Negro but a human being for the first time in my life ... I walk in full human dignity." - Paul RobesonSOLIDARITY
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.
