Furniture, Works of Art & Clocks - 3rd October 2024
Lot 851
λ A VICTORIAN OAK WELLINGTON STYLE COLLECTOR'S CABINET OF BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS
Estimate £700 - £1,000 | Hammer £1071
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Description
λ A VICTORIAN OAK WELLINGTON STYLE COLLECTOR'S CABINET OF BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS
MAINLY SOUTH AMERICAN, LATE 19TH CENTURY
with seven glass topped drawers of specimens including Atticus, Saturniidae Loxolomia serpentina, hawk moths, Atlas moths, heliconius, clear-wings, Ageronia Arete, morphos, tajuria, swallowtails and others, some drawers with collecting data
112.5cm high, 69.5cm wide, 46.6cm deep
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.