Furniture, Works of Art & Clocks - 3rd October 2024
Lot 852
λ A MAHOGANY COLLECTOR'S CABINET OF SOUTH AMERICAN AND AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS
Estimate £600 - £800 | Hammer £1764
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Description
λ A MAHOGANY COLLECTOR'S CABINET OF SOUTH AMERICAN AND AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS
20TH CENTURY
with a glazed door enclosing fifteen glass topped drawers with a variety of specimens including: swallowtails, heliconius, danaus, clear-wings, crackers, hawk moths, pierids, Bath White, callicore, dynamine, delias, mapwings, graphium and others, some drawers with collecting data
102cm high, 56cm wide, 43cm 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.