Coronation Street's Frisky's remains SOLD for £844 (NZ$1700) - Audio
Wed, 21 Jul 2010 03:48
Coronation Street. The cremated remains of Frisky, the Coronation Street cat, contained in a sealed wooden casket with small brass plaque (contents not examined), 11 x 14 x 9 cm, together with the accompanying certificate by the Elysian Fields Pet Crematorium confirming that Frisky was cremated on 17th November 2000, plus compliments slip, plus a group of nine postally unused colour publicity postcards of Frisky and all but three showing the cat with Coronation Street actors, plus a signed colour photograph of the newsreader Martyn Lewis holding Frisky and reading a copy of his book 'Cats in the News'.
Provenance: John & Joyce Rimington, Frisky's owners. A cat had appeared in four successive title sequences to the programme and in 1990 Frisky beat off 5,000 other cats to become the latest feline star in the new montage.
From then until 2001 Frisky appeared in the Soap's opening credits, crouching on the roof of Jack Duckworth's pigeon loft. Frisky got to meet the actors on the show and until his death in 2000 at the age of 14 he earned thousands of pounds for charities by making personal appearances.