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Post by nomad on Jan 23, 2021 12:16:59 GMT
Probably worse than going to an overpriced fair like Juvisy.... While I agree many of the prices for the rarities are high at Juvisy, its pretty choice material and often much better than the prices, and often better quality than ebay. Of course there are some bargains to had at these fairs, but most of these are sadly long gone before the fair opens to the public, being brought by other Dealers/collectors, the latter getting in before the masses with their tabled friends.
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Post by nomad on Jan 23, 2021 11:58:56 GMT
How much did the O. alexandrae pair go for and the lot with Papilio homerus?
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Post by nomad on Jan 11, 2021 11:08:34 GMT
Yes, it would be very interesting to know what the boxes with Ornithoptera alexandrae,, Papilio homerus, Urania sloanus will realize. So when someone knows can they add them here please.
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Post by nomad on Jan 4, 2021 7:56:40 GMT
Strange that he is continuing to produce them? In spite of the dire reviews one can only suppose that someone is buying them, otherwise why continue to publish. If major European and other specialists withdraw the support it might be harder due to copyright laws to publish more of the projected series in the future. Which begs the question, why in this case did a specialist agree (at least in the first place) to let the author have permissions to use photographs, information etc. Perhaps they had not read the previous reviews on these works, but one would have thought that they were at least aware of these publications?
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Post by nomad on Jan 3, 2021 14:01:19 GMT
eview where to buy the book as it was a requirement of the journal. That's strange never seen a review before where the reviewer had to state where to actually buy the book. Usually they just give the price etc. As far as Pemberley are concerned, they otherwise are a very good book seller, many of their titles are hard to source elsewhere in the UK. Their service is always fast and efficient, having over the year purchased many books from them.
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Post by nomad on Jan 3, 2021 11:56:53 GMT
Are Pemberley still selling them, I could find none in a search of their website?
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Post by nomad on Dec 29, 2020 10:44:18 GMT
Danny without a doubt had one of the best world collections and there are members here who are lucky enough to see it. He had much material not to be seen elsewhere in any private collection. He was also a highly regarded professional photographer with much of his work in many collections. I hope his great legacy his unique collection (and photographic art) will be well cared for. I am sure he would have wanted it to be. Perhaps and hopefully his magnificent collection will now adorn one of the many great American museums where it well be well cared for. I knew Danny was ill but it still comes as a shock to loose one of the great and most knowledgeable Lepidopterists.
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Post by nomad on Dec 27, 2020 12:46:19 GMT
Very said news RIP Danny.
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Post by nomad on Aug 21, 2020 8:23:22 GMT
Its does seem strange that Straatman was giving away alexandrae in the 70s free, when in the 70s he got asked to leave New Guinea for illegally Selling Birdwings.
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Post by nomad on Aug 20, 2020 21:50:54 GMT
I look forward to more of your pieces. Just join Imgur, its free and so easy to use, one click and paste and your image pops up in a nice size so you can see everything clearly.
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Post by nomad on Aug 19, 2020 13:19:41 GMT
Interesting Short bio on Chamberlin. What work do you have in your collection? The history section is quite extensive here and its nice to have others add to it. I probably add a few more articles this winter here, as that is when I do (did before China hit the planet with Covid 19) my research, and museums are now out of bounds. I am usually busy in the summer, early autumn out studying.. photographing insects... usually Diptera in the field.
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Post by nomad on Aug 2, 2020 17:47:23 GMT
A likely older pair from the mid-late 60s or 1970s. Many older pairs are all you are going to find unless you buy from a certain's counties Black Market. Many of Meek's specimens collected in the early part of the 19th century are in A1 condition, and I have seen many 1960s/1970s pairs in A1 condition, all bred.
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Post by nomad on Jul 24, 2020 6:12:28 GMT
When you trash your own world what do you expect, global humanity increases at a frighting rate. Yes it was scientists who first discovered this big problem in Europe in Germany with a massive decline in insects, it was already well known by the time it appeared on the National Geo cover. Look what they are doing to Amazonia, New Guinea and all those once so called remote countries with a loss of all the virgin rainforest. Everything wlll continue to decline in the natural world except man and those species, often pests which thrive alongside man, with continuing mass extinctions.
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Post by nomad on Jul 20, 2020 17:12:10 GMT
A nice find. Not a cover you are likely to find on a newspaper of today. It certainly takes me back to my younger days and I think the short back and sides was a mother's job in our household. I like the way the boy is shown with his socks pulled up over his trousers, a good protection against ticks. My brother still does that today!
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Post by nomad on Jul 18, 2020 6:43:42 GMT
How did you find it?
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