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1920s

A cream paper fairy fixed by a visible red hatpin looms beside a period camera and dark stream, an editorial interpretation of the admitted cutout method rather than a living fairy.

Sherlock Holmes and the Fairies

Two Yorkshire cousins photographed paper fairies, drawing Arthur Conan Doyle into a public campaign that outlived their joke and ended in conflicting admissions.

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1920s

Sherlock Holmes and the Fairies

The truth is in here

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