22Tentacles

07/11/2026

🎉 It’s Flea Market Day! 🎉
Come on out to Sisters Vintiques and Flashback Vintage today in Swartz Creek, at the corner of Miller and Seymour Roads!
🛍️ Our flea market is happening from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., with lots of great vendors, unique treasures, and a delicious food truck.
After you’ve shopped the flea market, come inside! Both Sisters Vintiques and Flashback Vintage are open from 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
While you’re here, be sure to visit:�✨ R&W Leatherworks inside Flashback Vintage�✨ The Gilded Nest Boutique Annex inside Sisters Vintiques
There’s something for everyone, so bring the family, spend the day with us, and discover why Swartz Creek is your vintage shopping destination. We can’t wait to see you!

07/06/2026

07/01/2026

250 years of Merica means you get 10% off everything
In July!

Booth #666 Inside Flash Back Vintage, Antiques, & Art
9106 Miller Rd Swartz Creek, MI

Monday 10 AM–6 PM
Tuesday 10 AM–6 PM
Wednesday 12PM-8pm
Thursday 10 AM–6 PM
Friday 10 AM–7 PM
Saturday 10 AM–7 PM
Sunday 11 AM–6 PM

06/25/2026

Miss Cleio was a 19th-century snake charmer and sideshow performer, famously immortalized in antique sepia-toned cabinet cards.

During the late 1880s and 1890s, these collectible photography cards—capturing her wrapped in massive pythons.

Information about her life and career is scarce, mostly surviving through antique ephemera.

Sideshow Era: In the 1880’s-1890’s, Miss Cleio worked within circuses and traveling dime museums prominently featured snake charmers. Miss Cleio typically wore exotic, heavily decorated, and bedazzled costumes to captivate audiences.

Miss Cleio's cards were frequently sold as souvenirs during her stage appearances.

This Cabinet card features Miss Cleio at age 20 wrapped in a huge python. The back of the card has a handwritten note and Autograph from Miss Cleio from 1895. It does have a heavy crease in it, but is a fantastic piece still.

I also have a second Miss Cleio autographed card, not featuring a snake available.

06/25/2026

Picked up a few Circus Sideshow Freak Show Cabinet cards from the 1890’s.

This one shows George Moore, known as “the Living Skeleton,” and Fred Howe, known as “the Fat Man,” performing as sideshow entertainers in the late 19th century.

As described in a 1897 Strand Magazine caption, Moore stood about 6 feet 3 inches tall and weighed only around 97 pounds, while Fred Howe measured about 4 feet 2 inches in height and weighed approximately 422 pounds, creating one of the most extreme physical contrasts featured in traveling circus acts of the time.

Howe had originally trained as a carpenter in Pennsylvania before his growing size led him to join the Forepaugh Circus as a “fat boy,” where he met Moore. Moore, born in Helena, Montana, worked in his family’s dry goods store until he left to pursue life on the road, eventually performing as a “living skeleton” in the circus.

The two became close friends and developed a boxing routine that blended their dramatic size difference with comedy, turning their performances into a popular attraction in an era when sideshow acts were a major part of traveling entertainment.

This card and more available now Flash Back Vintage, Antiques, & Art in booth #666
Open 7️⃣ days a week‼️

06/23/2026

Adding some 1890’s Circus Freak Show and more odd medical stuff today. Not sure if it should go online or to the booth? More info later!

06/22/2026

No time to visit the booth? Go grab a leg from home!

This Taxidermy & Curiosities item is sold by 22Tentacles. Ships from Flint, MI. Listed on Jun 21, 2026