Raynors HCA 2015-05
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 5/21/2015
Studio CDV of Millie and Christine McCoy who were cojoined twins. This image is not backmarked and shows the twins as young girls. VG Millie and Christine McKoy (1851-1912) who were slaves of a North Carolina blacksmith, Jabez McKay. The twins were first sold at 10 months of age to South Carolinian John C. Pervis. Pervis and McKay reached an agreement where Pervis exhibited the girls for pay and then paid a percentage to McKay. Fourteen months after the original sale, they were sold to a showman, Brower, who had the backing of a wealthy merchant named Joseph Pearson Smith. Brower first exhibited the twins at North Carolina's first state fair, held in 1853.
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