I hope a collector didn't take him!! [email protected] wrote:
This from today's Philadelphia Inquirer. (Note that reward is ONLY $250.). Steve Posted on Wed, Jul. 27, 2005 (http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/philly.news/local;kw=center6;c2=local;c3=local_homepage;pos=center6;group=rectangle;ord=1122465434288?) R E L A T E D C O N T E N T Have you seen this dog? Tupper is one of 30 painted Nippers in a public art project. He was taken from the Lutheran Home of Moorestown between 5 p.m. Thursday and 7 a.m. Friday. A missing Nipper Moorestown wants its fiberglass art dog back. By Jan Hefler Inquirer Suburban Staff Residents of Moorestown, just days ago declared the nicest place to live in America by Money magazine, woke up yesterday to the news that it has a dog thief on the loose. How else to explain the overnight disappearance of Tupper? One of the 30 Nipper the Dog statues scattered throughout the town as public art disappeared between 5 p.m. Thursday and 7 a.m. Friday, Moorestown police reported yesterday. "There's a nasty Nipper-napper out there," said Paul C. Cranmer, executive director of the Lutheran Home at Moorestown. The 5-foot-tall, painted fiberglass dog had been sitting on the front lawn of the East Main Street home - the very site where Eldridge Johnson, founder of the Victor Talking Machine Co., once lived. The famous Nipper was the company trademark. A $250 reward has been posted. "Tupper - Tut's Pup" (his full name) is a brown dog last seen wearing brightly painted Egyptian pharaoh's garb accented with gold necklaces and bracelets. Oddly, he was also wearing blue-and-green shorts. (This is Moorestown, after all.) Tupper is the second Nipper to vanish since the public art project was installed on Moorestown's streets June 6. Director of Police Harry Johnson said the first dog mysteriously showed up on the front lawn of a Moorestown police officer July 4. "He woke up in the morning, saw the dog there, and called the animal-control people," Johnson said, joking. The dog was returned before he was ever reported missing. The Nippers cost $2,000 to manufacture and paint, but Virginia Devery, who launched the project, said they had great artistic value and would be auctioned off Oct. 9 to benefit five nonprofit organizations. "They are works of art," she said. Additional measures will be taken to protect the dogs. The 200-pound Tupper, police believe, was dragged across the lawn before the thief removed the bolts attaching him to a cinderblock base. "Whoever did this should be locked up and the keys thrown away," said Ellen M. Green, 58, a longtime resident. Cranmer is putting up a banner that will say "Nipper, Come Home." Next to it will be a giant bowl and dog bone. "I think he'll turn up," he said. "He's big. Someone is going to notice him and know that it was stolen." ____________________________________ _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list [email protected] Phono-L Archive http://www.oldcrank.org/pipermail/phono-l/
