Miss Liberty to Carry Torch for a New Flame
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NEW YORK — A team of French artisans Tuesday began hammering sheets of copper to build a reflective gilded shell that will be the flame in the Statue of Liberty’s new torch.
The workers, employees of Les Metalliers Champenois, worked from a model based on photographs of the original 19th-Century design for the flame.
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