Steven,
I am so grateful to see the statue when I return to the USA or visiting NY!
It’s an amazing symbol and gift from the land that, (through the bloody annealing process of the Revolution), defined inalienable rights of each human as a citizen.
[The latter concept of “citizenship”, allowed me as a Jew, for example to claim equal standing before the courts irrespective of local religious doctrine. That spread of the rights of diverse people was realized ONLY through the force and personal will of Napoleon in the territories his soldiers overwhelmed and introduced French values!]
But full power of these French gifts of art and symbology only fully bloomed when Emma Lazarus’s penned her now famous poem!
This made the statue into a universally recognized standard for the promise of open opportunity to those striving for freedom and an open chance in life!
Your brilliance is actually delivering the 1/16 model to our pages in time! It brightens my day!
Asher