The sculpture was in extremely bad shape and Brown said he could have had a new one built for 1/4 the cost of repairing the original. But, Brown paid to restore it.
In 1995, on the 50th anniversary of Iwo Jima, Brown unveiled it at the USS Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York and remained there until 2007.
The auction will be Feb. 22, 2013. The successful bidder will also get the tools, drawings, sketches and pictures used to make it.
Rodney Brown says he has decided to sell it because it "doesn't fit in my living room."
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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