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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 2744466, member: 57495&quot;]A coin I bought a few months ago was pedigreed to the collection of Edward Perry Warren, an art collector from Boston who had once wanted to buy <i>The Kiss </i>from Rodin.&nbsp; When Rodin offered to make him a copy in marble for 20,000 francs, Perry countered unsuccessfully with 10,000 francs.&nbsp; He ended up paying &#039;full retail&#039;, but threw in the stipulation that he wanted the male figure&#039;s genitals carved larger, as &quot;a Greek would have done&quot;.&nbsp; The finished product possibly didn&#039;t live up to Warren&#039;s expectations, because he stuck it in his stable for the better part of a decade.&nbsp; After he died in 1928, apparently nobody wanted the damn thing until finally the Tate Gallery in London relieved his estate of it in 1955 for £7,500.&nbsp; It&#039;s arguably one of the most famous art pieces in the Tate&#039;s collection now.&nbsp; You have to wonder what the going price for it would be today.&nbsp; I guess there are copies and there are copies <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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