Fraud Collection (page 4)

Title page and frontispiece, Travels through Africa

A man and woman of Bahaharana, Africa
Plate entitled A man and woman of Bahaharana in the dress of the country. He carries a large club and she carries a bucket

A Moor in the desart of Sahara, Africa
Plate entitled A Moor in the desart of Sahara, depicting a man on a horse riding across the desert. The book (one of three), entitled Travels through the Interior of Africa

Gerald Lee Bevans first appearance in the Guildhall police
Stockbroker Gerald Lee Bevans first appearance in the Guildhall police court, to meet the charges of fraud brought against him

Examining fraudulent financial documentation - cheques and credit cards are checked for authenticity by the Metropolitan Police force

Around the world in an iron mask
An extraordinary postcard of a man who for a wager of 21, 000 pounds, walked around the world. Harry Bensley alledged to have pushed his perambulator all around the globe wearing this mask

Ectoplasm forming from Helen Duncans mouth
Undated photograph showing " ectoplasm" forming from the Scottish medium Helen Duncans mouth down her front and over shoulder. HPG/1/4/2 (vi)

Undated photograph of Ethel Beenham with cheesecloth
Undated photograph of Ethel Beenham with six feet of 30 inch wide cheesecloth in her mouth, showing how easily it can be rolled up and secreted in the mouth

A Tale of Terror
Colour illustration/cartoon, " A Tale of Terror!!!" by Thomas Tegg, 1820. Cartoon relating to thoughts regarding the Prophetess Joanna Southcott. HPG/8/2/1 (ii)"

Photograph of a reconstruction of one of the teleplasmic ha
Photograph of a reconstruction of one of the teleplasmic " hands" or pseudopods, often witnessed at the Rudi Schneider sances, 1929

Undated photograph of enlarged piece of teleplasm
Undated photograph of enlarged piece of " teleplasm" consisting of ordinary paper, secured from Helen Duncan during a sance, with scale annotations

Teleplasmic hand holding basket at a seance
Photograph of a reconstruction of one of the teleplasmic " hands" or pseudopods, often witnessed at the Rudi Schneider sances, 1929

Scottish medium Helen Duncan blindfolded
Undated photograph of the Scottish medium Helen Duncan blindfolded during a sance, producing " ectoplasm" and a " hand". The photograph is annotated to show fraudulence

Magicians trick being revealed
Copy of colour illustration, " Le Roi. Le Peuple" showing a magicians trick being revealed" (Chez Lordereau), 1848. HPG/8/2/1 (i)"

Photograph of the automatic electric photographic apparatus
Undated photograph of the automatic electric photographic apparatus used in the Rudi Schneider experiments. This is one of series of photographs documenting Harry Prices investigations into

Special fraud-proof double cage sance table
Undated double photograph on one card of special fraud-proof double cage sance table for testing telekinesis, showing inner cage raised and trap door open, and inner cage raised and trap door closed

Scottish medium Helen Duncan blindfolded during a sance
Photograph of the Scottish medium Helen Duncan blindfolded during a sance with " ectoplasm" wrapped around her head and reaching down to the floor, May 1931. HPG/1/4/2 (xi)"

Coin marked James Hallett-Curer of All Diseases
Illustration showing the design for a coin marked " James Hallett-Curer of All Diseases", 1795. HPG/8/6/2"

Scottish medium Helen Duncan during a sance
Photograph of the Scottish medium Helen Duncan during a sance with her head covered with " ectoplasm" reaching down to her lap, May 1931. HPG/1/4/2 (xv)"

Undated photograph of enlarged portion of ectoplasm
Undated photograph of enlarged portion of " ectoplasm", showing rents, warps and weft. This is one of series of photographs of Harry Prices investigations into the mediumship of Helen

Dr Slade: spirit writing trial
Sketches of the trial of Henry Slade, showing Slade in the centre. Slade first practised his spirit communication in America before travelling to England where he gave seances from his lodgings in

Mississippi Scheme
Allegorical representation of the Mississippi scheme which, like the South Sea Bubble in England, is a scandalous plan whereby investors are enticed into a get-rich-quick fraud

Beggar / Owen Clancey
Owen Clancey. A noted London beggar, who it seems is not quite as bereft of the use of his legs as it may appear at first glance

Poster: Davenport Seance
A poster giving the synopsis of an evening of entertainment including two demonstration seances by Ira Davenport & Fay who pretended to be spirit mediums but used stage tricks

Davenport Leaflet Russia
A handbill for seances in Russia by brothers William and Ira Davenport who pretended to be spirit mediums but were actually clever stage magicians

Houdini Exposes Trick
Houdini demonstrates how with the help of an assistant, a skilful medium can exchange a blank slate for a marked one in mid-seance

Moss Photographs H Price
A spirit photograph of Harry Price taken by George Moss who subsequently confessed to creating fake pictures (such as this one)

Flying Objects
How a fraudulent medium creates the illusion that the spirits are causing objects to fly round the seance room

Henry Slade American physical spirit medium accused of fraud in a notable trial

Florence Cook
Florence Eliza Cook Noted medium, investigated by Crookes : sometimes guilty of fraud

Removal Men 1929
Removal men at the Great Stanhope Street house of Mr Clarence Hatry, the City of London fincancier, jailed for fraud

Piltdown Skull / Diagram
PILTDOWN MAN - a diagram of the cranium and jaw bone, claimed to be the missing link by Charles Dawson in 1912. The skull was proven to be a half- human, half-ape fake in 1953

Fake Slate Writing
How a fraudulent medium performs slate-writing while still apparently under strict control

Writing with Toes
How a fraudulent medium produces spirit messages using his toes

All Professionally Made to Order for Quick Shipping