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RE: Wax figures of Mary - Gene C - 01-30-2015 03:02 PM

They're not looking to well

Don't think these are wax, but they are from the Lincoln Museum, in Hogenville, KY
https://www.flickr.com/photos/105898294@N05/14450457609/in/set-72157645641469472

RE: Wax figures of Mary - Thomas Kearney - 01-30-2015 04:35 PM

(01-30-2015 02:06 PM)RJNorton Wrote:  
(01-30-2015 11:42 AM)Thomas Kearney Wrote:  I saw a wax figure of Mary at the Civil War Wax Museum in Gettsyburg in the assassination scene.

I think the Lincolns were in the auction there last spring.

[Image: wax10-jpg.jpg]

Oh, that's right. I heard it closed. The building is now the Gettysburg heritage center. I would always take my mother to the Wax Museum because the Sumner wax figure's breathing freaked her out! Angel

RE: Wax figures of Mary - Donna McCreary - 01-30-2015 07:07 PM

(01-30-2015 03:02 PM)Gene C Wrote:  They're not looking to well

Don't think these are wax, but they are from the Lincoln Museum, in Hogenville, KY
https://www.flickr.com/photos/105898294@N05/14450457609/in/set-72157645641469472

Mary looks like she has been in the sun far too long.

RE: Wax figures of Mary - RJNorton - 01-31-2015 05:11 AM

Here are some more wax figures - these are in the National Wax Museum of Lancaster County Heritage in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The inaugural train came through Lancaster on February 22, 1861.

[Image: 6716367697_101ac8c109.jpg]


RE: Wax figures of Mary - Jim Garrett - 01-31-2015 08:42 AM

They're so lifelike!!! :0

RE: Wax figures of Mary - L Verge - 01-31-2015 12:07 PM

Unfortunately, you get what you pay for -- and good wax figures are not cheap! However, I would rather not have any if this is what I had to settle for...

RE: Wax figures of Mary - Susan Higginbotham - 01-31-2015 02:39 PM

I went to the National Historical Wax Museum in D.C. on a school trip in the 1960's. One exhibit was of the aftermath of the Alamo, with one dying soldier's hand twitching. It completely freaked out my 10-year-old self, and I haven't wanted to go near a wax museum since.

RE: Wax figures of Mary - L Verge - 01-31-2015 02:49 PM

During my teaching days in the late-60s and early-70s, my 8th graders spent a weekend each fall in Jamestown and Williamsburg and a Saturday in the spring at Gettysburg. One of the sites we visited in Gettysburg was the old wax museum. At the entrance to the actual exhibit area, there was often a Civil War soldier standing guard -- made up to appear of wax. As the first students would start through the entrance, he would either speak to them or pinch them. It would totally freak them out because they were not expecting a real, live human. The worst part was getting everyone to calm down after that and be polite through the exhibits.

RE: Wax figures of Mary - RJNorton - 01-31-2015 03:10 PM

(01-31-2015 02:49 PM)L Verge Wrote:  During my teaching days in the late-60s and early-70s, my 8th graders spent a weekend each fall in Jamestown and Williamsburg and a Saturday in the spring at Gettysburg. One of the sites we visited in Gettysburg was the old wax museum. At the entrance to the actual exhibit area, there was often a Civil War soldier standing guard -- made up to appear of wax. As the first students would start through the entrance, he would either speak to them or pinch them. It would totally freak them out because they were not expecting a real, live human. The worst part was getting everyone to calm down after that and be polite through the exhibits.

Laurie, there is an article on this here.

RE: Wax figures of Mary - L Verge - 01-31-2015 03:21 PM

(01-31-2015 03:10 PM)RJNorton Wrote:  
(01-31-2015 02:49 PM)L Verge Wrote:  During my teaching days in the late-60s and early-70s, my 8th graders spent a weekend each fall in Jamestown and Williamsburg and a Saturday in the spring at Gettysburg. One of the sites we visited in Gettysburg was the old wax museum. At the entrance to the actual exhibit area, there was often a Civil War soldier standing guard -- made up to appear of wax. As the first students would start through the entrance, he would either speak to them or pinch them. It would totally freak them out because they were not expecting a real, live human. The worst part was getting everyone to calm down after that and be polite through the exhibits.

Laurie, there is an article on this here.

I don't think those brothers were the first "guards." My trips with the kids would have been between 1966 and 1972. There was a single guard at that time.

RE: Wax figures of Mary - Anita - 01-31-2015 07:57 PM

You can have your own life size wax mannequin of Lincoln. Go here. http://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/silicone-mannequin-of-world-famous-male_2006722032.html

RE: Wax figures of Mary - L Verge - 01-31-2015 08:20 PM

(01-31-2015 07:57 PM)Anita Wrote:  You can have your own life size wax mannequin of Lincoln. Go here. http://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/silicone-mannequin-of-world-famous-male_2006722032.html

I think I'll save my money...

RE: Wax figures of Mary - Donna McCreary - 02-02-2015 01:21 PM

(01-31-2015 05:11 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  Here are some more wax figures - these are in the National Wax Museum of Lancaster County Heritage in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The inaugural train came through Lancaster on February 22, 1861.

[Image: 6716367697_101ac8c109.jpg]

Ugh, just so, so wrong.

RE: Wax figures of Mary - Susan Higginbotham - 02-02-2015 02:09 PM

(02-02-2015 01:21 PM)Donna McCreary Wrote:  
(01-31-2015 05:11 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  Here are some more wax figures - these are in the National Wax Museum of Lancaster County Heritage in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The inaugural train came through Lancaster on February 22, 1861.

[Image: 6716367697_101ac8c109.jpg]

Ugh, just so, so wrong.

Poor Mary! Someone should steal Mrs. Slater's veil and drape it over the poor lady.

RE: Wax figures of Mary - Eva Elisabeth - 02-02-2015 07:44 PM

I can read waxy A. L.'s thoughts: "I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice...I am used to it."