Simply: Wax Models [Oldies]


    A wax head being packed up for despatch at a factory which specialises in near-life models for shop windows, museums and exhibitions, 1950. (Photo by John Chillingworth)


    A wax head being packed up for despatch at a factory which specialises in near-life models for shop windows, museums and exhibitions, 1950. (Photo by John Chillingworth)




    A model of a ghost made from translucent fibreglass is lit from inside at Gem's (Wax Models) Ltd, in the Portobello Road area of west London. The ghost is due to go to the Capistrano Mission Museum in California, where tourists are told the legend of how he frightened a young Indian girl novice to death. 1st May 1965. (Photo by Chris Ware/Keystone Features)


    A model of a ghost made from translucent fibreglass is lit from inside at Gem's (Wax Models) Ltd, in the Portobello Road area of west London. The ghost is due to go to the Capistrano Mission Museum in California, where tourists are told the legend of how he frightened a young Indian girl novice to death. 1st May 1965. (Photo by Chris Ware/Keystone Features)



    Vera Bland chooses the right colour eyeballs for a wax head of Cardinal Bernard Griffin, Archbishop of Westminster in the workshop of Madame Tussaud's, London, June 1946. (Photo by George Konig/Keystone Features)


    Vera Bland chooses the right colour eyeballs for a wax head of Cardinal Bernard Griffin, Archbishop of Westminster in the workshop of Madame Tussaud's, London, June 1946. (Photo by George Konig/Keystone Features)




    Bernard Tussaud, grandson of Swiss modeller Madame Tussaud, holds two wax heads, one of Haile Selassie, Emperor of Abyssinia (Ethiopia) and the other of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. September 1935. (Photo by Fox Photos)


    Bernard Tussaud, grandson of Swiss modeller Madame Tussaud, holds two wax heads, one of Haile Selassie, Emperor of Abyssinia (Ethiopia) and the other of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. September 1935. (Photo by Fox Photos)



    An employee of Gems Ltd, a firm based in a disused chapel off Portobello Road, London, fixes the wax head of a model onto its body. The firm makes wax and composition models, including likenesses of criminals, politicians and royalty, as well as mannequins to display fashion. November 1950. (Photo by John Chillingworth/Picture Post)


    An employee of Gems Ltd, a firm based in a disused chapel off Portobello Road, London, fixes the wax head of a model onto its body. November 1950. (Photo by John Chillingworth/Picture Post)




    Craftsmen at the Madame Tussaud's workshop arrange headless wax figures of Wakatsuki, Stimson, MacDonald, Tardieu and Grandi into a tableau of a political conference. 20th February 1930. (Photo by Fox Photos)


    Craftsmen at the Madame Tussaud's workshop arrange headless wax figures of Wakatsuki, Stimson, MacDonald, Tardieu and Grandi into a tableau of a political conference. 20th February 1930. (Photo by Fox Photos)




    A technician takes the wax heads of former exhibits at Madame Tussaud's waxworks museum, circa 1950. (Photo by George Pickow/Three Lions)


    A technician takes the wax heads of former exhibits at Madame Tussaud's waxworks museum, circa 1950. (Photo by George Pickow/Three Lions)




    Wax caster, Alec Williams making a model of Ivan The Terrible's head at Gem's (Wax Models) Ltd, in the Portobello Road area of west London. 1st May 1965. (Photo by Chris Ware/Keystone Features)


    Wax caster, Alec Williams making a model of Ivan The Terrible's head at Gem's (Wax Models) Ltd, in the Portobello Road area of west London. 1st May 1965. (Photo by Chris Ware/Keystone Features)


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Simply: Wax Models [Oldies]


A wax head being packed up for despatch at a factory which specialises in near-life models for shop windows, museums and exhibitions, 1950. (Photo by John Chillingworth)


A wax head being packed up for despatch at a factory which specialises in near-life models for shop windows, museums and exhibitions, 1950. (Photo by John Chillingworth)




A model of a ghost made from translucent fibreglass is lit from inside at Gem's (Wax Models) Ltd, in the Portobello Road area of west London. The ghost is due to go to the Capistrano Mission Museum in California, where tourists are told the legend of how he frightened a young Indian girl novice to death. 1st May 1965. (Photo by Chris Ware/Keystone Features)


A model of a ghost made from translucent fibreglass is lit from inside at Gem's (Wax Models) Ltd, in the Portobello Road area of west London. The ghost is due to go to the Capistrano Mission Museum in California, where tourists are told the legend of how he frightened a young Indian girl novice to death. 1st May 1965. (Photo by Chris Ware/Keystone Features)



Vera Bland chooses the right colour eyeballs for a wax head of Cardinal Bernard Griffin, Archbishop of Westminster in the workshop of Madame Tussaud's, London, June 1946. (Photo by George Konig/Keystone Features)


Vera Bland chooses the right colour eyeballs for a wax head of Cardinal Bernard Griffin, Archbishop of Westminster in the workshop of Madame Tussaud's, London, June 1946. (Photo by George Konig/Keystone Features)




Bernard Tussaud, grandson of Swiss modeller Madame Tussaud, holds two wax heads, one of Haile Selassie, Emperor of Abyssinia (Ethiopia) and the other of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. September 1935. (Photo by Fox Photos)


Bernard Tussaud, grandson of Swiss modeller Madame Tussaud, holds two wax heads, one of Haile Selassie, Emperor of Abyssinia (Ethiopia) and the other of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. September 1935. (Photo by Fox Photos)



An employee of Gems Ltd, a firm based in a disused chapel off Portobello Road, London, fixes the wax head of a model onto its body. The firm makes wax and composition models, including likenesses of criminals, politicians and royalty, as well as mannequins to display fashion. November 1950. (Photo by John Chillingworth/Picture Post)


An employee of Gems Ltd, a firm based in a disused chapel off Portobello Road, London, fixes the wax head of a model onto its body. November 1950. (Photo by John Chillingworth/Picture Post)




Craftsmen at the Madame Tussaud's workshop arrange headless wax figures of Wakatsuki, Stimson, MacDonald, Tardieu and Grandi into a tableau of a political conference. 20th February 1930. (Photo by Fox Photos)


Craftsmen at the Madame Tussaud's workshop arrange headless wax figures of Wakatsuki, Stimson, MacDonald, Tardieu and Grandi into a tableau of a political conference. 20th February 1930. (Photo by Fox Photos)




A technician takes the wax heads of former exhibits at Madame Tussaud's waxworks museum, circa 1950. (Photo by George Pickow/Three Lions)


A technician takes the wax heads of former exhibits at Madame Tussaud's waxworks museum, circa 1950. (Photo by George Pickow/Three Lions)




Wax caster, Alec Williams making a model of Ivan The Terrible's head at Gem's (Wax Models) Ltd, in the Portobello Road area of west London. 1st May 1965. (Photo by Chris Ware/Keystone Features)


Wax caster, Alec Williams making a model of Ivan The Terrible's head at Gem's (Wax Models) Ltd, in the Portobello Road area of west London. 1st May 1965. (Photo by Chris Ware/Keystone Features)


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