One of a kind.(Short Story)

Gender and technology in Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach's "Ein Original".
Women in German Yearbook;  January 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... The "Original" of the title is Gabriel Teufenberg, a wealthy gentleman. What is original ... his cousins no more attention than wax dolls would have received from him, that is, motionless wax dolls, for ones that moved would have awakened ...

Article: France produced the best dolls; Under the Hammer.(News)
Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England);  March 1, 2008 ;     698 words ... ... although wooden, papier mac he and wax dolls are also interesting. In the mid-19th ... Montenari and Meech. Lifelike poured wax dolls were produced with glass eyes and hair ... stuffed body and poured wax limbs. Cheaper wax dolls were also made by dipping a head in wax ...

Article: Little girls training for motherhood practised on ...
Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  August 9, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... cracked, leaving disfiguring blemishes. The most desirable wax dolls are those that are made from poured wax with the headmoulded ... with the insertion of hair and eyelashes. Eighteenth century wax dolls are hard to find, but they were produced in large numbers ...

Article: This charming man has become a zombie Last Night's TV
The Independent - London;  October 19, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... public mind, or certainly in mine, voodoo is bound up with wax dolls, the blood of slaughtered chickens and zombies. But, lo ... all those silly, tawdry associations. Well, the ones with wax dolls and slaughtered chickens, anyway. You have to admire the ...

Article: ANTIQUES & COLLECTING: Enduring appeal of dolls and teddy bears; ...
The Birmingham Post (England);  January 5, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... of the 19th century both beeswax and paraffin were used in the production of wax dolls, with leather, kid and china used to make the bodies. Some of the best wax dolls were made by the Montanari and Pierotti families in London in the 19th century ...

Article: wax figures
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      378 words ... ... model for the finished work. Polychrome wax portraits were popular in Europe throughout the 18th cent. In the 19th cent., wax dolls came into fashion, and exhibits of wax figures, often portraits of notorious people, were popular. Among such collections ...

Article: Familiar faces from childhood tell the toy story
Yorkshire Post;  August 27, 2005 ;     406 words ... ... the place to be. "Discover the history of dolls and the different materials used to make them from traditional wooden and wax dolls to modern plastic dolls and find out how toys have adapted over the years, materials used and the ways toy making has developed ...