GROUP OF FOUR LEPIDOPTERY SPECIMEN DISPLAY CASES
EARLY 20TH CENTURY AND LATER
Estimate: £300 - £500
Auction: Day 1 - Wed 14th May from 10am | Lots 1 to 313
Description
to include two double-sided wooden collector's boxes with butterfly specimens, one box containing African specimens of the Papilionidae family, the other with a paper label from ‘Watkins & Doncaster, Naturalists, 36 Strand, London’ containing specimens with handwritten paper labels dated 1928; together with a double glazed teak case of eight specimens of iridescent butterfly and a small white glazed box framed specimen of a male Trogonoptera brookiana, or Rajah Brooke's birdwing, from Malaysia (4)
Dimensions
the two boxes 44cm long, 30cm wide, 9.5cm deep
Footnote
CITES STATUS: All Article 10 Exempt as a worked specimens in a finished state before 3 March 1947
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