MANUFACTURE OF WAX MODEL
ACHIEVEMENT OF DUNEDIN MODELLER Dominion Special Service. Dunedin, October 11. A Dunedin resident has won the distinction of producing the first wax model suitable for the displaying of draperies in New Zealand. The maker is Mr. Thomas Herbert Kelsey, present modeller at the Otago Medical School, and at one time attached to the staff of Dr. Pickerlll, for whom he kept a complete record of his work with the most exacting of models. He has many other noteworthy works of art to his credit, including that greatly discussed model of two farmsteads which was on view at the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition. His latest innovation is a beautiful work of art in the form of a draper’s model made in reinforced wax with the necessary colouring to give the figure life and expression. Mr.- Kelsey has produced a figure which has been claimed by one of Dunedin’s largest drapery houses as equal in every quality to the very best imported Parisian models.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 15, 12 October 1928, Page 10
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168MANUFACTURE OF WAX MODEL Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 15, 12 October 1928, Page 10
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