Furniture, Works of Art & Clocks - 3rd October 2024
Lot 847
λ NINE FOLDING ENTYMOLOGY CASES
Estimate £200 - £300 | Hammer £227
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Description
λ NINE FOLDING ENTYMOLOGY CASES
20TH CENTURY
containing a variety of specimens of moths and butterflies including: hawk moths, Spanish moon moth, swallowtails, five bar swordtail, owl butterfly and other specimens, together with another entymology box and four frames of mounted butterflies including Atticus Atlas, Black Kaiser and others (14)
Provenance
Collected by Edmund de Rothschild (1916-2009) in the first half of the 20th 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.