Check out the story way back in 1937 great uncle Sal was making a lot of masks they were used in some Broadway plays sal always used I’ve been backgrounds of a lot of his portraits in his studio in Manhattan this mask right here that I’m posing with is called Mr. Neptune the mask of knowledge he’s over 80 years old in the last 20 years I have used him a lot and a lot of my photo shoots at my studio he is now semi retired living at our house in Florida with 40 of his other friends Anyway some costume Company in New York commissions Sal to make a bunch of masks for their company to be in the 1939 New York worlds fair sal was so excited he made 18 large masks he wanted them to be so special so in the papier-mâché mix he mixed in pyramids scrapings from Egypt, Haitian voodoo dust, A bunch of secret potions from around the world, sal even got a little creative and sprinkled in some Cambodian Opium which was something he like back then not too much though and then put the cherry on