Carola Giedion-Welcker originally commissioned the sculptor Paul Speck to make two casts from Joyce’s face, but it seems likely that at least a third cast may have been made and sent to Edmund Brauchbar, a friend of Joyce’s who had also helped him get into Switzerland in 1940. Giedion-Welcker also had copies of the originals made during the 1950s. One of the original death masks and one of the copies were given to Michael Scott who had been involved in establishing the Joyce Museum at the Martello Tower in Sandycove, and the original is on display there. Michael Scott later gave the copy to John Huston, who filmed Joyce’s story ‘The Dead,’ but he also made a cast from which seven more copies were produced. The death mask on view here is one of the copies. The second original death mask was given by Giedion-Welcker to the International James Joyce Centre in Zurich.