PAIR OF ENTOMOLOGY SPECIMEN DISPLAY CASES
LATE 19TH / EARLY 20TH CENTURY
£1,134
Auction: Day 1 - Wed 14th May from 10am | Lots 1 to 313
Description
containing a varied collection of over one hundred insects from around the world pinned to an eau-de-nil painted interior, including rhinoceros beetles, jewel beetles, grasshoppers, butterflies, moths, bees, etc, all housed within matching gilt and ebonised wooden box framed single-glass display cases, the backs of the cases with the remnants of paper labels for ‘J T Stockall, Preservers of Birds, Beasts, Reptiles, Fish, Etc, Margaret St. Cavendish Sq, Corner of Gt. Titchfield St.’ (2)
Dimensions
71cm wide, 35cm high, 10cm deep
Footnote
CITES STATUS: All Article 10 Exempt as a worked specimens in a finished state before 3 March 1947
Please be aware that this lot contains material which may be subject to import/export restrictions, especially outside the EU, due to CITES regulations. Please note it is the buyer's sole responsibility to obtain any relevant export or import licence. For more information visit http://www.defra.gov.uk/ahvla-en/imports-exports/cites/