
![PSYCHIC AND SPIRITUAL MEDIUM PHOTOGRAPHY An archive of 16 glass plate negatives, and 5 rolls of film negatives (approximately 160 images), mostly depicting seances held in Balham, London by the physical medium Jack Weber from 1938 to 1940, [c.1938-1940]; together with 5 books relating to Edwards, Webber and Helen Duncan (small quantity) image 1](/_next/image.jpg?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg1.bonhams.com%2Fimage%3Fsrc%3DImages%2Flive%2F2023-02%2F13%2F60153021-1-3.jpg&w=2400&q=75)
![PSYCHIC AND SPIRITUAL MEDIUM PHOTOGRAPHY An archive of 16 glass plate negatives, and 5 rolls of film negatives (approximately 160 images), mostly depicting seances held in Balham, London by the physical medium Jack Weber from 1938 to 1940, [c.1938-1940]; together with 5 books relating to Edwards, Webber and Helen Duncan (small quantity) image 2](/_next/image.jpg?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg1.bonhams.com%2Fimage%3Fsrc%3DImages%2Flive%2F2023-02%2F13%2F60153021-1-2.jpg&w=2400&q=75)
![PSYCHIC AND SPIRITUAL MEDIUM PHOTOGRAPHY An archive of 16 glass plate negatives, and 5 rolls of film negatives (approximately 160 images), mostly depicting seances held in Balham, London by the physical medium Jack Weber from 1938 to 1940, [c.1938-1940]; together with 5 books relating to Edwards, Webber and Helen Duncan (small quantity) image 3](/_next/image.jpg?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg1.bonhams.com%2Fimage%3Fsrc%3DImages%2Flive%2F2023-02%2F13%2F60153021-1-1.jpg&w=2400&q=75)
PSYCHIC AND SPIRITUAL MEDIUM PHOTOGRAPHY 16 glass plate negatives, and 5 rolls of film negatives [c.1938-1940]; and 5 books
Sold for £7,012.50 inc. premium
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Footnotes
A small archive of "psychic" photographs with a distinguished provenance. Most of the images show the physical medium Jack Webber holding seances, including scenes of ectoplasm emerging from the medium's body, dematerialisation, levitation of a table weighing 45lbs, and astral spirits, one of those in attendance being Helen Duncan, a Scottish medium who was the last person prosecuted under the Witchcraft Act 1735.
Provenance: Henry Edwards (1893-1976), "The Great Healer"; his daughter Felicity J. Medland, author of two biographical works relating to Harry, A Slice of Life (1997) and Life Around My Father Harry Edwards (2007), copies of which are included in the lot. Sold with a letter, signed and dated 21 Jan. 2023, stating that the archive belonged to her father, and that at 99 years old she is "the last living person to have witnessed the seances with the physical medium Jack Webber [shown in the photographs], which were carried out by the Balham Psychic Research Society in my home, 11 Childebert Road...".