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Post by wollastoni on Mar 10, 2015 8:54:57 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2015 11:12:32 GMT
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Post by wollastoni on Mar 10, 2015 11:36:37 GMT
Great collection... but what a mess !!!
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Post by Paul K on Mar 10, 2015 12:30:46 GMT
Great collection . Someone who will buy needs lot of cash and time to organize all those drawers. Many specimens needs resetting and fixing and I think new airtight drawers are needed too.
Does anyone have idea how much collection like this can be sell for?
Paul
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Post by wollastoni on Mar 10, 2015 15:53:51 GMT
Problem is who would buy it ?
- a Museum ? Not sure they have money nowadays to invest for this kind of collections. Among all the drawers, only few can interest them
- a seller ? Same problem, only some drawers would be interesting to be sold and all specimens needs to be resetted before reselling them
- I doubt a collector would buy it as a whole.
--> unfortunately this collection won't be sold at its real "value"
So guys, take time to have a nicely spread and organized collection if you want it to "survive" your death. Otherwise only your few rarities will be kept and the rest will disappear.
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Post by mygos on Mar 10, 2015 16:01:19 GMT
Olivier,
Could you split this Hemming auction in a separate post as we get confused with the title ?
A+, Michel
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2015 16:03:03 GMT
I have many Hemming specimens, there is no order as such to the collection, it is quite a mess, how it got this way I do not know but it will need deep pockets to get it, I have no idea if it is being sold in bits or entire but you can watch the auction online on the 27th by going to the auction website.
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Post by nomad on Mar 10, 2015 19:02:35 GMT
Looks like the owner wants this sold as one lot. It is going to be expensive, lots of rarities here. I wonder who will buy it, I am going for a wealthy collector. I wonder who bought his British butterfly collection, probably that was sold in different lots.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2015 19:17:02 GMT
Part of his huge European collection is at my friends house which is fairly substantial but in as much disarray as this is but there are many rarities also including parnassius, I may give them a closer look when I am down there in may.
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Post by suzuki on Mar 15, 2015 21:39:37 GMT
The Seller is hoping to sell the collection as a whole with a price in the region of £25,000. Seperatly to be also sold is a smaller collectopn of the seller's historic old english specimens with great data.
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Post by jensb on Mar 28, 2015 22:40:19 GMT
I cant find the results online Someone knows what happened
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Post by suzuki on Mar 29, 2015 14:19:52 GMT
Yes. The collection did not achieve its reserve price of £25,000 although all the individual lots of English butterflies sold at quite good prices such as £680 odd for the "Commma" collection.
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Post by nomad on Mar 29, 2015 17:29:54 GMT
Yes. The collection did not achieve its reserve price of £25,000 although all the individual lots of English butterflies sold at quite good prices such as £680 odd for the "Commma" collection. What is the Commma collection and what was in it? |
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Post by suzuki on Mar 29, 2015 19:34:29 GMT
This was 22 specimens of c-album bred by F.W.Frohawk in 1894 and included the original butterfly from Emma Hutchinson after whom the form "hutchinsoni"was named.
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Post by suzuki on Mar 29, 2015 19:35:10 GMT
This was 22 specimens of c-album bred by F.W.Frohawk in 1894 and included the original butterfly from Emma Hutchinson after whom the form "hutchinsoni"was named.
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