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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2017 9:43:26 GMT -8
  Papilio aegeus of mine from the Hans Fruhstorfer collection, I have since added the abdomen. |
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2017 9:55:41 GMT -8
  Papilio aegeus from the famous Pratt brothers collection, sold at Stevens auction house London in 1917, later it came into the collection of the explorer Colonel Percy Fawcett who vanished in the 1920's while searching for an ancient lost city in Brazil which he believed to be the remains of El Dorado, I think a film has just come out about him entitled the lost city of Z. |
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Post by nomad on May 16, 2017 12:20:43 GMT -8
"later it came into the collection of the explorer Colonel Percy Fawcett who vanished in the 1920's while searching for an ancient lost city in Brazil which he believed to be the remains of El Dorado, I think a film has just come out about him entitled the lost city of Z." Almost certainly the butterfly collector Lt.-Col. J. Malcolm Fawcett. see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Farish_Malcolm_Fawcett and not the vanished explorer of city of z fame.  Percy Fawcett never collected butterflies. |
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Post by Adam Cotton on May 16, 2017 13:50:55 GMT -8
Papilio aegeus of mine from the Hans Fruhstorfer collection, I have since added the abdomen. I hope that you added the ORIGINAL abdomen, rather than adding one from another specimen. Adam. |
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2017 22:49:02 GMT -8
Yes,it was in the box next to it, it would be sacrilege to use a false part on this specimen in my opinion.
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Post by Adam Cotton on May 17, 2017 0:51:41 GMT -8
Indeed, it is better not to replace parts from any specimen with those of another one just to make them look 'nice'.
Thanks for sharing photos of these interesting specimens with us all.
Adam.
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2017 1:51:19 GMT -8
I have a historic aglais urticae specimen that only has one antenna, and every time I look at it I feel the urge to glue on one from another specimen but so far have resisted the temptation.
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Percy Fawcett never collected butterflies.
