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The Ricky Jay Collection Part III

Sat, Aug 17, 2024 12:00PM EDT
Lot 356

MILLIE-CHRISTINE (Millie and Christine McKoy, 1851 – 1912)....

Estimate: $500 - $700

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MILLIE-CHRISTINE (Millie and Christine McKoy, 1851 ? 1912). Group of 6 programs, handbills, and a CDV. Including: a carte de visite portrait (Ollivier: n.d., ca. 1880s), mount trimmed slightly into text, printed verso with rhyming couplets and text on the ?eighth wonder of the world.? ? Biographical Sketch of Millie Christine, the Two-Headed Nightingale. N.p., n.d. Lacking wrappers. 32pp. ? Millie Christine program, ?Farewell Tour of the World,? at Piccadilly Hall, 17 February 1885, on yellow and tan paper (two copies). ? The Double-Headed Girl, handbill, ?presented before you by C.B. Brestle, who is traveling in company with Forepaugh?s Gigantic Menagerie and Circus Combined.? [1868]. Wood-engraved illustration of Millie-Christine, 17 years old. ? Millie Christine Royal Aquarium handbill (n.d.). ? Millie Christine W.C. Coup?s handbill, large engraved portrait, on orange paper (ca. 1878), piece torn upper right. Size generally 9 x 5 ?? and smaller.