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Strange things sell! A dead cat sold for $22,200 at an Ancient Objects online auction in October 2019. It was a 21-inch Egyptian mumified cat in an antique glass dome. A December 11, 1939, newspaper mentioned that it was bought at an earlier sale in 1939.

 

 

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