DRAPER’S MODELS
NEW ZEALANDER’S SUCCESS, (By Telegraph—rress Association). 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 inventor is Mr Thomas Herbert Kelsey, present modeller at the Otago Medical School, and at one time attached to the staff of Dr Pic-kerell, for whom he kept a complete record of his work with the most exacting 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 in reinforced wax with the necessary colouring to give the figure life and expression. Air Kelsey has produced a figure which has been claimed by one of Dunedin’s largest drapery bouses as equal in every quality to the very best imported Parisian models.
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 October 1928, Page 2
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