Silver Tabby English Shorthair female
born 1901
Sweet Phillis was a stunning silver classic tabby English Shorthair female, owned by an early stalwart of the Cat Fancy, Mrs. Louisa Herring, whose husband Charles Herring, was a cousin of Ann Herring, the first wife of Harrison William Weir.
Few silver tabbies, then or now, could claim to have such a wonderfully clear wide-banded coat with such clarity and definition.
Mrs. Herring was herself a 'character' of the early fancy, and specialized in an eclectic variety of cats, but her silver and brown tabby shorthairs were well known all over Europe. She even sold a Brown 'tiger' Tabby to the then Sultan of Turkey!
Read all about 'Sweet Phillis' at http://www.cat-o-pedia.org/sweet-phillis.html
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