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Lot 458

BLAZEK, Rosa and Josepha (1878 – 1922). Group of ephemera r...

Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500

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BLAZEK, Rosa and Josepha (1878 ? 1922). Group of ephemera related to The Pygopagi Twins. Comprising: a four page Egyptian Hall program, with color chromolithograph portrait to upper cover (London: W.S. Johnson, ?Nassau Steam Press?). ? an albumen photograph, 2 x 3 ??, depicting the young twins in their mother?s lap, in original mailing folder from the London Stereoscopic & Photographic Co., signed ?With Respectful Compliments?, addressed to ?Major Bell 40 Pall Mall.? ? a handbill, ?For Members of the Medical Profession Only,? dated Prag, 8th June 1880, describing the twins? deformities. ? a 27-page manuscript attributed to Major William Morrison Bell (1834?1900) titled ?The Pygopagi,? about the twins. ? a photograph of Rosa Blazek with her son Franz (the Blazeks are only recorded conjoined twins in which one twin conceived and underwent childbirth). ? and The Last Illness of the Blazen (Grown-Together) Twins (1922), by Benj. Breakstone.