King Kamehameha Statue

 The original statue of King Kamehameha was commissioned in 1878 and sculpted in Italy. Put on a ship bound for Italy, the ship sank off the Falkland Islands and was presumed lost. Insurance money was collected and a new one arrived in Honolulu in 1883. A few weeks later the original statue arrived in Hawaii, having been salvaged and bought by King Kalakaua who had bought it from an English Captain who had found it in a junkyard in the Falklands. This is Hawaii #76 in my catalogue.

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