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A question for Capped Bust chasers?

BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
I've only been able to find the statement below and was wondering if there a known image of the rubenesque female that modeled as John Reich's Liberty image

Fifty years later, U.S.Mint writer William Ewing DuBois would claim that the model for all these rather stout, ample-bosomed Liberties was a woman he called "Reich's fat German mistress."
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  • OKbustchaserOKbustchaser Posts: 5,539 ✭✭✭✭✭
    No one actually knows who the model for the capped bust design was, but it is fairly well agreed that the statement to which you refer was slander by a non-admirer.

    Robert Scott's draped bust design was modeled after one of the--if not the most beautiful woman in the country at the time... Anne Willing Bingham
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    Just because I'm old doesn't mean I don't love to look at a pretty bust.

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