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[SIAMESE TWINS]. Five Broadsides and Handbills. Including printed announcements for: The Edmonton Twins at the Adelaide Gallery. [London], ca. 1860. Letterpress handbill heralding the twins who have, “two perfect heads with beautiful black hair … united in to one body. – (The Tocci Brothers). Amsterdam, ca. 1880. With a woodcut depicting the Italian boys. Dutch text. – Reynolds’ Exhibition … Orissa Twins. Liverpool, ca. 1893. Small and attractive letterpress poster with a portrait of the “remarkable twin sisters Doodica and Radica” of India. – A Short And Concise Account of Eliza & Mary Chulkhurst … The Biddenden Maids. Two variant broadsides with a woodcut of the girls “who were born joined together by the hips and shoulders, in the year of our lord 1100” explaining their story and their continued largesse. The largest framed to 18 ½ x 12 ½”; not exaimined out of frames or mats. One loose.