λ A MAHOGANY COLLECTOR'S CABINET OF WORLD BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS

λ A MAHOGANY COLLECTOR'S CABINET OF WORLD BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS

20TH CENTURY

with a glazed door enclosing fifteen glass topped drawers with a variety of specimens including: swallowtails, morphos, Indian swallowtails, leaf butterfly, Bath whites, Death's Head Hawk, lappet, heliconias, Conepteryx, bird wings, owl butterfly, Atlas moths, monarchs and others, some drawers with collecting data

102.3cm high, 55cm wide, 42cm deep

Provenance

Collected by Edmund de Rothschild (1916-2009) in the first half of the 20^th century and displayed at Exbury House, Hampshire.

The Trustees of Exbury House.

We are grateful to Simon Moore M.I.Sc.T., A.C.R. from Natural History Conservation for his assistance cataloguing the present work.