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'The Cottingley Fairies', a group of five b/w. loose photographic prints, marked A - E, B.C.D E.... 'The Cottingley Fairies', a group of five b/w. loose photographic prints, marked A - E, B.C.D E. 23cm x 15.4cm, image A. 15.4cm x 20.4cm, accompanied with a 4pp. pamphlet, 16cm x 12cm, all contained within a leather Temple Bar Loose leaf ring binder file, ink ownership name Ethel Clara Lewis, Glastonbury on paper label pasted to inside marbled front board. * the original five photographs were taken by sixteen year old Elsie Wright (1901 - 1988) and her cousin Frances Griffiths (1907 - 1986) in Cottingley, West Yorkshire between 1917 - 1920, first published in the Christmas 1920 edition of the Strand magazine by Arthur Conan-Doyle who vouched for their authenticity, the Cottingley fairy photographs became one of the greatest photographic hoaxes. Frances only confessed in 1983, by then 76 years old, that the first four photographs had been faked, but insisted the fifth 'Fairies and their Sun-Bower' was genuine. (6)