FAMOUS FALCONER BROTHERS
SPIRIT PICS! The below
photos are a few that were recently listed on eBay. They are the
originals and quite rare. Under each photo I list the price that
each sold for. The photos are obviously faked. Eventually the
Falconer Brothers were arrested for fraud in South Africa. -Jim Craig and George Falconer
(whose mother was a conventional spiritualist medium)
specialized in holding sittings where visitors were allowed to
see the camera being loaded with fresh film and observe the
whole process from exposure to development. This reinforced the
authenticity of their psychic photographs, distinguished by the
appearance of spirits alongside their human counterparts. They
were eventually arrested, tried and convicted of fraud in South
Africa in 1931, on the evidence of two plainclothes men posing
as sitters. All their equipment was confiscated and the brothers
were sentenced to pay fines of £150 each, or serve 12
months imprisonment with hard labor. The prosecution
established that the 'extras' or spirits they obtained were
photomechanical images that displayed the
dotted appearance of screen-printing. The cloudy 'ectoplasm' was
also found to be manipulated.
Source: artrabbit.com
Submitted
by:
Ghoststudy
reporting
Auction
ended Aug. 26th 2009 - Bought for $493.00
Auction ended Aug. 26th 2009 - Bought for $457.49
Auction ended Aug. 26th 2009 - Bought for 199.99
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copies of 1930's newspapers
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