£6,000 - £8,000
BUTTERFLIES - LEPIDOPTERA - THE COMPREHENSIVE COLLECTION PRESENTED IN FORTY TWO WELL FILLED VOLUMES - INCLUDING THE "BATTEN" COLLECTION OF BLOCKS OF FOUR: 1903-2015 (mostly 1995-2015) mainly mint (much unmounted) plus used, collection in forty two well filled albums of miniature sheets (3,000+ with better Guyana and British Colonies), a large number of blocks of four on well annotated pages from the 21 volume "Batten" collection (included) as exhibited at the RPSL, perforated and imperforate complete and part sets. and a few covers and some charity labels. Japan 1916 10s blue. toned perf. (SG £925), Jamaica 1964 6d with blue omitted mint (SG 223a £100) and a small number of inverted watermark varieties A wide ranging number of World Wide countries with early Netherlands Antilles and French Colony overprints represented, ALL DEPICTING BUTTERFLIES with some sections well annotated. Although the main subject of the collection is butterflies fine examples of stamps showing Birds, Reptiles, Beetles, Flora and Fauna are represented. Must be viewed to be fully appreciated. (Some 1000's) Cross Reference: INSECTS, BUTTERFLIES, BOTANY/FLOWERS, BIRDS
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