DAMAGED GOODS

HISTORY'S TIDBIT - In the mid 1870's, the French government sent plaster casts of several statues housed in the Louvre as a gift to the San Francisco School of Design. Wells Fargo was the shipping company. When the shipment arrived, one of the statues was significantly damaged. The school sued Wells Fargo. Wells Fargo was forced to pay damages. The statue was the Venus de Milo. Neither the School of Design nor Wells Fargo realized that the statue's arms had been broken off the original sculpture prior to its acquisition by the Louvre and long before the plaster cast was entrusted to Wells Fargo. LARRY ELKINS - elkinsphotos.com