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Post by nomad on Sept 26, 2017 12:41:49 GMT
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Post by africaone on Sept 26, 2017 20:51:23 GMT
add the shipping "Shipping: £ 18.55"  |
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Post by mygos on Sept 27, 2017 20:31:51 GMT
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Post by nomad on Sept 27, 2017 21:32:55 GMT
Have a look at Antiquariaat Junk who is one of the greater specialist in the world : and it was not even published!! |
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Post by trehopr1 on Sept 28, 2017 2:07:46 GMT
Just think of how many specimens you could get (at several insect fairs) for that kind of money ! I would without hesitation choose the specimens over any book. I would'nt care if Leonardo DaVinci hand colored the plates himself and only made 1 copy. I'd have enough specimens to post here on the forum for the next 3 years --- even if I posted 3 times a week!!
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Post by nomad on Sept 28, 2017 5:56:34 GMT
I cannot remember what the highest known price paid for a single butterfly is, perhaps someone here can enlightened me.
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Post by africaone on Sept 28, 2017 8:54:10 GMT
some years ago a paradisea for was sold for a total of 22000 € (fees included, at Drouot). I have no precise info but maximum I heard is about 35-40 k€ (far from beetles around 200 k€)
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Post by nomad on Sept 28, 2017 12:42:04 GMT
Yes that was the extreme O. Paradisea borchi specimen bought by one of the authors of the Outstanding Birdwing book who I believe was so please to acquire it, he had the aberration named after himself.  200k for a beetle, you have got to be kidding  What species of beetle would go for that amount !! Someone please tell. |
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Post by trehopr1 on Sept 28, 2017 15:39:11 GMT
I can only imagine a couple of beetle species fetching such stratospheric sums and they would likely be big fellows. Xixuthrus heros would be my first candidate as relatively few examples are known in collections and Fiji has protected it's fauna (from collection) for quite some time. At auction in Europe or Japan I could imagine this "King of Cerambycids" easily commanding a lot of attention in a heated auction environment. Large males can break into the 16's range; and it's overall scarcity and mythic status places it well above the cost of any Macrodontia or Titanus of similar proportions.
Secondly, I believe an outsized example of Dynastes hercules somewhere in the 18+ cm range would also likely fetch such a sum at a heated auction. A few short years ago I recall someone on the other forum posting a picture of a " Gigantosaur " of a D. Hercules out of Japan. I do not recall if it had been bred or was wild collected.
Additionally, I would add that only a few short years ago some Japanese buyer purchased a sizable Stag beetle (live) from a pet shop in Japan and paid $90,000 for it. This was well noted in newspapers round the world. I have a clipping of the article. I believe it was a specimen of Dorcus titanus (or something very close) as that looked to be it in the photo.
Of coarse, one could say that "color" is another selling feature among beetles and we could all imagine certain species (or color aberrations) of them fetching pricey sums but, I just don't think they would ever reach into the stratosphere (price wise) as they would likely be of common species lineage which is known to have extremes of color.
In this regard, I refer to certain Buprestidae and perhaps something like P. mulleri out of Australia to cite just a few.
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Post by africaone on Sept 28, 2017 20:31:02 GMT
Yes that was the extreme O. Paradisea borchi specimen bought by one of the authors of the Outstanding Birdwing book who I believe was so please to acquire it, he had the aberration named after himself. 200k for a beetle, you have got to be kidding What species of beetle would go for that amount !! Someone please tell. it is a lucanid bought by a Japanese ( a record size).
for us of course, it is something incredible, but what is 200k for people able to spend millions ....
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200k for a beetle, you have got to be kidding 