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Frances Griffiths with ‘fairies’, one of the photos that fooled Arthur Conan Doyle and others. This image sold for £15,000 at Dominic Winter.
It may seem hard to credit nowadays, but photographs of fairies at the bottom of the Cottingley (Yorkshire) garden of two young girls, produced in 1917 as a practical joke, were taken to be genuine by many people – most famously, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.