FAKED fairy photos used in one of the greatest ever hoaxes have sold for more than ten times their estimated value.
The Cottingley Fairies were expected to fetch up to £1,000 each but topped £20,000 in total.
The two pictures were taken in 1917 by Elsie Wright, 16, and her nine-year-old cousin Frances Griffiths in the village of Cottingley, West Yorkshire.
The two girls, like so many children then and now, believed in fairies and set out to prove their existence.
They staged them with paper cut-outs at the end of Elsie’s garden.
They first showed Frances with four dancing fairies and two months later photographed Elsie seated with a one-foot tall dancing gnome.
By 1920 they were being hailed as real by experts and celebs — including Sherlock Holmes author and spiritualist Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who used them in a magazine article.
Following the publication of Conan Doyle’s article a great public controversy raged with leading scientists and writers voicing their opinions in support of and against the truthfulness of the photographs.
Auctioneer and photography specialist Chris Albury said the two pictures were sold to UK-based buyers, with the fairy fetching £15,000 and gnome going for £5,400.
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“We had so much interest and a bank of about eight phone lines but it was the internet that carried both away without any of the phone bidders getting their hands in the air,” he said.
“I thought if things went wild we might get to £10,000 for the pair, but these prices are absolutely staggering.”
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