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[SPIRIT PHOTO]. HOPE, William (1863–1933). Two RPPCs of Subjects with Spirits. England: Crewe Circle, ca. 1910s–1920s. Two real photo postcards depicting subjects with apparitions above and next to them. Photographs by Hope or members of the Crewe Circle. Divided backs, not postally used. 5 ½ x 3 ½". Some discoloration and fading to images, staining verso. Good.Hope was a member of the Crewe Circle, a group of six pioneering spirit photographers and spiritualists in Crewe, England. Hope was exposed as fraudulent by paranormal investigator Harry Price in 1922, which prompted believer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to lead a mass resignation of eighty-four members of the Society for Psychical Research. Price later wrote “Arthur Conan Doyle and his friends abused me for years for exposing Hope."