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Fri, Oct 10, 2025 09:00AM EDT
  2025-10-10 09:00:00 2025-10-10 09:00:00 America/New_York Fleischer's Auctions Fleischer's Auctions : Day 2: Early & Historic Americana https://bid.fleischersauctions.com/auctions/fleischers-auctions/day-2-early-historic-americana-19250
Day one of Fleischer's 2025 Fall Premier auction includes early American artifacts, documents, signatures, ephemera, and weaponry. Rare material relating to African American history is featured, as well as fine examples of antique photography.
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Lot 366

[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY] Young Women w/ Cat & Doll

Estimate: $250 - $500
Starting Bid
$100

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Tintype studio portrait of two girls. 3 1/2 x 2 1/2 in. Uncased.

 

A beautiful portrait of two girls, likely sisters, with one holding a doll and the other holding a sleeping white cat. Early photographs showing cats are rare. Portraits with cats, notoriously uncooperative to photographers, are even rarer. 

 

[Photography, Early Photography, Historic Photography, Daguerreotypes, Ambrotypes, Tintypes, Cased Images, Union Cases, Albumen Photographs, CDVs, Carte de Visites, Cartes de Visite, Carte-de-visite, Cartes-de-visite, CDV, Cabinet Cards, Stereoviews, Stereocards]

Corners clipped, likely for inclusion in an album.

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