Wax Collection (page 3)

Madame Tussauds museum, Marylebone Road, London
Madame Tussauds waxworks museum, Marylebone Road, London. Date: circa 1905

Madame Tussauds waxwork museum, London
Madame Tussauds waxwork museum, Marylebone Road, London. Date: circa 1905

Aerial view, Madame Tussauds waxwork museum, London
Aerial view of Madame Tussauds waxwork museum and Baker Street underground station in Marylebone Road, London. circa 1910

Wax celebrities in Paris shop windows
Celebrities of 1928 cast as wax mannequins in Paris shop windows. From top left clockwise, tennis stars Suzanne Lenglen and Helen Wills, Josephine Baker, Charlie Chaplin and Jackie Coogan

Parisien wax-modellers at work in the Tatler
Image depicting the art of the Parisien wax-modeller, showing artists colouring the faces and supplying heads with hair. The wax models were often required to represent a fashionable woman for

Owl in an envelope on a Christmas card. Date: 1891

Gold stick handle with figure of a bird. Majagual (Sucre). Made by lost-wax casting process. Sinu art. Jewelry. COLOMBIA. CUNDINAMARCA. Bogotᮠ Gold Museum

WW1 Recruitment Poster -- Y Darn Papur
Y Darn Papur. Recruitment poster, published by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee as Poster No. 15. Welsh version of The Scrap of Paper - Prussias Perfidy

Japanese Geisha girl with fan and seal
A Japanese Geisha girl, places her seal on a hand-painted fan. Date: circa 1910s

Michel Chevreul Photo
MICHEL EUGENE CHEVREUL French chemist who invented the wax candle but never drank anything but water. Date: 1786-1889

Egyptian Fantasy card - State Telegram and Al-Azhar Mosque
Egyptian Fantasy card - featuring an Egyptian State Telegram and an inset photograph of the Al-Azhar University and Mosque, Cairo, Egypt (founded in 975) all on a faux papyrus background

Greetings Postcard with good luck Shamrocks
Greetings Postcard with Good Luck Shamrocks surrounding a wax-sealed envelope Date: 1912

Candle holder and mouse on a cutout Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Corypha cerifera, Brazilian wax palm
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Asteroxylon mackiei, clubmoss
A wax model reconstruction of the Early Devonian plant Asteroxylon mackiei, a clubmoss, approximately 10cm tall. Original specimen discovered at Rhynie Chert, Scotland

Bread seller, figure in wax by Andr鳠Garcia
Bread seller, figure in wax by Andr鳠 Garcia (19th c.). Romanticism. Orientalism. Sculpture

DEGAS, Edgar (1834-1917). Thoroughbred Horse Walking. ca 1868. Brown-yellow wax. Impressionism. Sculpture

Treaty of Union 1604 proposal
One of three counterparts of proposed treaty of union of England and Scotland, 6 December 1604 Date: 6th December 1604

Will of Van Dyck
Will of Sir Anthony Van Dyck 4 December 1641, proved 13 December 1641 Date: 13th December 1641

Seal of King Henry III
First Great Seal of Henry III 13th century

Boy Scouts car washing during Scout Job Week
Boy Scouts washing a British Leyland Marina at the Cowley works during Scout Job Week. Including a promotion for Rally Car Shampoo. 1974

Madame Marie Tussaud (1761-1850)
Engraved portrait of Madame Tussaud (1761-1850), born Marie Grosholtz, pictured c.1845. Marie Tussaud was the wax sculptor who founded Madame Tussauds Waxwork museum in London in 1835

Elizabeth I at Madame Tussauds waxwork museum
Queen Elizabeth I model at Madame Tussauds waxwork museum, London Date: c. 1910s

Madame Tussauds waxwork museum and London Planetarium c. 1930s

Henry VIII at Madame Tussauds waxwork museum
King Henry VIII model at Madame Tussauds waxwork museum in London Date: c. 1910s

Wax effigy of Princess Elizabeth
The Duke and Duchess of York and Mr Leslie Henson with a wax effigy of the young Princess Elizabeth. The doll was the piece de resistance of an auction held at a Society ball. Date: 1927

Mother Hubbard / Writing
Mother Hubbard/Writing

Matchmakers filling frames with wax strands
Women working at a matchmaking factory fill frames with wax strands

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Anon. Warne alphabet 1875. WXYZ
Page from a 19th century alphabet book with W and X, inexplicably, for bees, honey and hives (?), Y for yacht (thats better, back on familiar territory) and Z for the good old zebra

Ear Picker - India
A wonderful postcard depicting an Indian ear picker and client in Bombay (Mumbai)

Fantasy card - Istanbul - Telegram form
Fantasy postcard in the form of a telegram form, featuring a street scene in Constantinople (Kara Koy). The Imperial Ottoman Post and Telegraph Service

Certificate for Harry Price from the Magicians Club
Coloured certificate for Harry Price from the Magicians Club informing him of his unanimous election as Honorary Vice-President of the Club, signed by Will Goldston and others, 7 January 1931

Wax run down at Llandarcy
The wax run-down at the BP crude oil processing plant at Llandarcy, Swansea, Wales

Three Frontiersmen Mending their Canoe, Canada, 1883
Engraving of three frontiersmen mending their canoe with hot wax or gum, in the Canadian back woods

Hoya / Flower & Leaves
An unspecifed plant. Possibly a species of Hoya or Wax flower. Here, the leaf shape is depicted, a stem and flower head

Kluski Spirit Glove 3
Wax glove of a materialised hand created at Warsaw by Franek Kluski (pseudonym) (1874 - ?) in the presence of Richet, Geley and others

Casanovas Wax Image
The Italian adventurer CASANOVA inspects the wax image of himself made by a witch for a Spanish contessa who wished him harm

Marie Tussaud at 24
MADAME MARIE TUSSAUD the Swiss wax model maker at the age of 24, in the form of a waxwork model

Marie Tussaud at 90
MADAME MARIE TUSSAUD the Swiss wax model maker at the age of 90, in the form of a waxwork in her own museum

Marie Tussaud Iln
MADAME MARIE TUSSAUD the Swiss wax model maker in old age

Languages at Westminster
The modern languages classroon at Westminster, with the boys learning from an early wax cyclinder gramophone

The Fall of Icarus
Icarus flies too near the sun, which melts the wax of his wings and he falls

Fumaria Officinalis
Fumitory, or Earth Smoke, or Wax Dolls

Futuristic recorded message
In the year 2000, people will send messages one to another in the form of wax cylinders, recorded on the senders gramophone, delivered by messenger, then played by the recipient

Kluski Molds
At Paris, Kluski produces wax molds of hands, impressed by spirit entities

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