The Most Curious of Curiosity Shops 



In New York City is one of the most 

 curious shops in the world. It is a 

 factory where colossal models are 

 made from metal for shop-keepers' 

 signs. At left is a pair of opera 

 glasses large enough to fit Miss 

 Liberty. Sheets of copper were 

 rotated against wooden models and 

 blunt tools pressed them into form 



This giant tooth is made of a com- 

 position substance of white appear- 

 ance so that the dentist's sign will 

 not tarnish or grow dim. As it is 

 to be suspended overhead, it is 

 made hollow inside so as to prevent 

 it from being dangerously heavy 

 if it should happen to be blown down 



At left is a jeweler's sign — a wedding 

 ring as large as an automobile tire. 

 Others have been made large enough 

 for diminutive couples to pose 

 seated on the rim. No idea a 

 merchant may have for an adver- 

 tising design, however freakish, is 

 too difficult for these metal workers 



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