You have to be dead for it to be a death mask... yours is a life mask.

Speaking of Abraham Lincoln, for him we have both life masks and a death mask

http://www.abrahamlincolnartgallery.com/masks.htm

Heres another snippet of useless information.
Eddie Delaney and Garech Browne were good friends. Garech Browne set up Claddagh records in the early 60's,when the label launched the chieftains debut album in 63 Garech got Eddie to design the sleeve artwork.


From the book" Breaking the mould" by Eamon Delaney.
" The band piper and leader , Paddy Maloney,said that whenever they went abroad they were asked about the sleeves,a nice compliment,not helped by Eddie's boast on the "late late show" that many people bought the LP's for the sleeves and threw away the records"

I think maybe Eddie Delaney was not a big trad fan.

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