smithy75
New Aurelian
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Country: U.K
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Post by smithy75 on Mar 20, 2017 11:05:12 GMT
A very good morning to all my name is Chris I live in the West Midlands area and originally stated collecting in 1969 and early 1970 and after a very long layoff have now come back to the hobby I still have a few butterflies and moths from then but some are worse for wear due to neglect on my part through very busy times rearing a young family and now in my 62 year have started again and have a proper cabinet on order which I yearned for as a young lad but the wait is 6 to 7 months so at the moment I am using to old Watkins a Doncaster store boxs plus to very good new ones from Chadwick end cabinets where my order is placed for a 20 drawer all tips advice welcome and was wondering if there is any collectors nearby to me thank you Chris
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Post by wollastoni on Mar 20, 2017 11:56:37 GMT
Welcome here Chris !
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Post by Adam Cotton on Mar 20, 2017 11:58:20 GMT
Chris, Welcome to the ICF. It's good to hear about someone who has returned to insect collecting. Please do tell us what you particularly like, and feel free to post photos and information for us all to see (if you have any problems check out the "How to attach a picture" thread here: collector-secret.proboards.com/thread/11/attach-picture ) I don't live near you, I'm in Chiang Mai, Thailand, but was born in Edgbaston (1959, so I'm 'only' 58 ) and lived in Knowle from age about 10 until I went to university in London and moved out here in 1981. My speciality is family Papilionidae. Adam.
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smithy75
New Aurelian
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Country: U.K
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Post by smithy75 on Mar 20, 2017 13:49:52 GMT
Hi Adam thank you very much for your prompt reply first off I visited Chiang Mai 9 years ago with my late wife and what a beautiful place my main interest is the large beetles from world wide have bought a few in the last few months but on arrival there was some damage dam this I think was mainly due to bad packaging by the supplier no names mentioned is there any one you can recommend possibly in your location as I believe there are some very large species that come from Thailand my very best regards Chris
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