Mar 21, 2024 - Sale 2663

Sale 2663 - Lot 186

Price Realized: $ 875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(ENTERTAINMENT.) Carte-de-visite and advertising cards of the conjoined twin performers Millie and Christine. 3 items, as described. No place, circa 1883
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Carte-de-visite portrait of the conjoined twins Millie and Christine McCoy, born into slavery and exhibited across the world in concerts as the Two-Headed Nightingale. We have not seen any other examples of this image, or any with them wearing these distinctive crowns. Albumen photograph, 3½ x 2¼ inches, on original plain mount; minor foxing. No place or date.

With--Two copies of "Millie Christine, the Renowned Two Headed Lady. 8th Wonder of the World." Chromolithographic cards, each about 5 x 3 inches, both cropped to image, each with different promotional text on verso by "John B. Doris' Great InterOcean, Largest and Best Show on Earth." [Cincinnati, OH]: [Strobridge Lithographing], circa 1883.