It’s nothing to sniff at.
A copper chunk of nose, crafted to fit Lady Liberty’s face during her 1980s restoration, will be auctioned next month.
“It’s the tip of the nose with the area around the nostrils. It doesn’t sound like it would be, but it’s fairly attractive looking,” said Arlan Ettinger, president of Guernsey’s Auction House.
The 2-foot-long section was one of four created to replace the Statue of Liberty’s weather-worn whiffer, but “it’s the only one that likely will ever be sold,” Ettinger said.
One was used in the historic nose job, another was destroyed, and the third belongs to a private collector, he said.
The auction, set for Sept. 24 at the Park Avenue armory, includes such other icons as the last home-run ball hit at the original Yankee Stadium, Barbra Streisand’s first test record and a photo negative from Marilyn Monroe’s nude calendar shoot.