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The President and First Lady received these uniquely sculpted busts from artist John Quates of Inkster, MI, late in the administration. The bust of President Obama is made from a basketball with painted plaster features and shaved tennis ball fibers mounted on a mosaic tile platform with an engraved name plate that reads: “M.V.P. BARACK OBAMA MOST VALUABLE PRESIDENT.”
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Bust of President Barack Obama
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Bust of President Barack Obama
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The President and First Lady received these uniquely sculpted busts from artist John Quates of Inkster, MI, late in the administration. The bust of President Obama is made from a basketball with painted plaster features and shaved tennis ball fibers mounted on a mosaic tile platform with an engraved name plate that reads: “M.V.P. BARACK OBAMA MOST VALUABLE PRESIDENT.”
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Barack Obama Artifact Collection
Domestic Gifts
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M.V.P
BARACK OBAMA
MOST VALUABLE PRESIDENT