It is not expected to be on display until May 2019.Like the entire Statue of Liberty, the torch designed by the French sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi (1834-1904) was replaced by a copy in 1984.
By: Egypt Today staff CAIRO -- 4 October 2017: October 4 marks the day the designer of the Statue of Liberty, Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, passed away at the age of 70 in 1904.
Lest we forget, the statue was an 1886 gift to America by France and created by Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, a French sculptor, to celebrate, from the perspective of the formerly enslaved, their Jim Crowed, Reconstructed freedom offered by America.
French sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, who traveled to Egypt in 1855-1856, developed there a "passion for large-scale public monuments and colossal sculptures," said the US National Park Service, which guards the Statue of Liberty in New York.