Red Paper Clip

Kipling, Saskatchewan, Canada

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A giant red steel paper clip in Bell Park, Kipling, Saskatchewan, unveiled on July 12, 2007. It commemorates Kipling's part in Kyle Macdonald's One Red Paperclip trading project and is reported as 15 ft 2 in tall, 45 ft 6.75 in long and 3,043 lb of steel. The Town of Kipling reports Guinness World Records recognition.

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Site-level location · 50.1005° N, 102.6316° W

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Kipling, Saskatchewan, has a 15-foot steel paper clip because of a series of online trades. According to the Town of Kipling, Kyle Macdonald began the sequence on July 12, 2005, trading a single red paper clip for a fish-shaped pen. Later steps on the town's list include a door knob, a camp stove, a generator, a snowmobile and a recording contract.

Kipling's link comes at the end. The town says its Economic Development Officer put an offer to Council, and that actor-director Corbin Bernsen accepted a KISS snow globe in exchange for a movie role. The town's page states that Kipling traded a house for that movie role, and that the final trade was completed on July 12, 2006, a year to the day after the first. The house is now commonly called the Red Paper Clip House, the town says.

The town says it built the World's Largest Red Paper Clip as part of the trade terms, and it was unveiled on July 12, 2007. Tourism Saskatchewan gives its size as 15 feet 2 inches tall, 3 feet 3 inches wide and 45 feet 6.75 inches long, made of 3,043 pounds of solid steel; the Town of Kipling gives the same height and weight. The Town of Kipling reports that it received a Guinness certificate for the World's Largest Paper Clip and was recognized in the 2007 Guinness Book of Records for the best internet trade. Guinness's own record listing was not checked.

The clip stands in Bell Park at 6th Avenue. Tourism Saskatchewan lists a picnic area, and the Town of Kipling says visitors often stop to take photos at the paper clip and at the house.

The sources read do not name a designer, fabricator or funder for the sculpture, and neither page is dated.

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Stands in Bell Park at 6th Avenue in Kipling; Tourism Saskatchewan lists a picnic area at the listing.

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In Bell Park; the Town of Kipling says visitors often stop to take photos. Admission and opening hours are not stated in the sources read.

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