Whilst in Hereford, I arranged a meeting at the Hereford Museum Resource and Learning Centre for research, to look at their collection of early 1900 civilian paraphernalia. I spoke to Althea, one of the in house historians who took me through bits she felt were the most relevant for what I was looking for and gave me a brief description about them. They keep all of the items in a temperature controlled room full of rolling drawers and boxes full of tissue paper so I was given gloves so that I could handle the objects freely without worrying about damaging them. I felt this suited me alot more than a normal museum as I am a very tactile person and I found for making believable replicas a sense of how they feel helps that.
I really enjoyed looking at the toys and the luggage the most. I think that buying some modern day luggage and aging it may be a good idea for a prop. I’m going to look through my research in my sketchbook and do more on these areas tonight and decide from that.
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