Furniture, Works of Art & Clocks - 3rd October 2024
Lot 855
λ A MAHOGANY COLLECTOR'S CABINET OF BRITISH AND WORLD BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS
Estimate £400 - £600 | Hammer £479
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Description
λ A MAHOGANY COLLECTOR'S CABINET OF BRITISH AND WORLD BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS
20TH CENTURY
with eight glass topped drawers containing a variety of specimens including: hawk moths, heliconius, Nyctalemon zampa, swallowtails and others
63cm high, 48cm wide, 28cm 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.