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Pasqual Pinon, “Pedro the Two-Headed Mexican" RPPC. Sells-Floto Circus, 1917. Real photo post card depicting the sideshow performer with two heads oriented in the same direction. Not postally used, divided back with pencil annotations. 5 ½ x 3 ½". Light staining and discoloration; cracking; small spots of loss. Good.Pinon was initially a railroad worker, discovered by a sideshow promoter who saw opportunity in the large growth on his head. The promoter molded a face to affix to the growth, and the two-headed man was born. One telling alleges that the promoter had a silver plate with the likeness of a face implanted in Pinon's head, which eventually caused mental impairment and had to be removed. His career lasted only two years before Pinon returned to the railroads.