Many older collections have them - Hair balls were a bit of an oddity, like albino birds & 2-headed critters. The one in our collection dates to 1886 and is about the size of a baseball (but, I understand they can get much bigger).
Chris Chandler
Putnam Museum
Davenport, IA
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