A Fine Mid 20thC Lepidopterist's Shadow Boxed Display of Silk Moths sub-Curios is attached via a rod

is attached via a rod and thus can be removed and when in position turned through three sixty degrees

which is in the German/Austrian tongue

the whole standing on bulbous turned peg feet

Height: 70 inches

His company produced high quality reproductions of major art work and greeting cards using the complex technique of chromolithography

A Fine Mid 20thC Lepidopterist's Shadow Boxed Display of Silk Moths sub-Curios is attached via a rodOrigin: English Period: Mid Twentieth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1950 70 The Case: Height: 10 inches Width: 8. 25 inches Depth: 1. 75 inches The glazed pine shadow box case housing four specimens of silk moth (Bombyx mori) surviving from the middle of the twentieth century. The case is in good condition and ready for wall mounting whilst each specimen remains in fine fettle. Examples of the silk moths preserved here include the Cecropia Silk