The Boy with the Leaking Boot
Patrick Patterson of Clovis, California, purchased what was purported to be the "original" bronze molds for the Boy with the Boot statue in 1998 from an antique dealer (Lamoine Abbott) of San Angelo, Texas.
These molds of the Boy with the Boot statue were sold to the Texas dealer by "Midwest Exchange, Inc." of Shawnee, Wisconsin, in 1981.
[citation needed] Among the earliest statues is that in Sandusky, Ohio, where it stood in front of the Porter House hotel on the shore of Lake Erie.
The original zinc statue was brought from Germany in 1876 by a prominent local couple, Mr and Mrs Voltaire Scott.
After cyclone damage and several incidents of vandalism, the statue was moved to the lobby of the local City Hall, and a replacement bronze was installed in a fountain in Washington Park.
[1] In Helena, Montana, a statue stood in front of the "Natatorium", built in 1889 and housing the then-largest indoor plunge pool in the world, as part of the Broadwater Hotel complex.
[8] The statue erected in 1895 in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, had a similarly chequered existence, being damaged by a horse-drawn vehicle in 1910 and thereafter cared for by the local fire department, outside whose station he stood with various incidents of damage and restoration including being decapitated in 1998 (the head was handed in to the police three days later).
"[9] A statue of the boy highlights a fountain on Main Street and School Street in Wallingford, Vermont, United States, and has been a centerpiece in the town since 1898, when it was erected in memory of local innkeeper Arnold Young, by his children, with a 10-year interval from 1910 when it disappeared and was later found in the inn's attic.
The boot, all that remained after this statue was vandalised in 1961, is reported to grace the present day hospital administrator's desk.
[17] A statue stood in City Hall Park in El Paso, Texas, for 50 years before being moved to San Jacinto Plaza in the 1950s.
Further statues have been reported to exist in the United States at Salida, Colorado (at the Heart of the Rockies Regional Medical Center), and Council Bluffs, Iowa.
[19] A statue in Assiniboine Park, Winnipeg, Manitoba, was originally donated to the city by the Young Peoples' Christian Endeavour Society and the Trades and Labour Council in honour of Queen Victoria's golden jubilee in 1897.
It formed part of a fountain outside the old city hall, and was moved to the park in 1953 with funding from Order of Rotary International Fellowship.
[24] A replacement statue was made by a local garden ornaments manufacturer and installed with improved security in September 2012.
[26] In 1925 a statue was erected in Cuba in the Parque Vidal of Santa Clara, bought from J. L. Mott of New York by Colonel Francisco López Leiva.
[19] Mary'n B. Rosson (died 14 November 2002[3]) wrote an article in True West Magazine about the restoration of the El Paso statue.
