A Mid 20thC Lepidopterist’s Shadow Boxed Display of a Pair of Papilio Horishanus Swallowtail Butterflies sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles and it is not unusual

and it is not unusual to find little tassels adorning them

Signed in pencil lower left Jobtz

The condition of the doll is quite distressed

one of the pair would fall into the fair to good category and the other into poor to fair

eidos or form

A Mid 20thC Lepidopterist’s Shadow Boxed Display of a Pair of Papilio Horishanus Swallowtail Butterflies sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles and it is not unusualOrigin: English Period: Mid Twentieth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1940 60 The Case: Height: 10 inches Width: 7 inches Depth: 1. 5 inches The glazed pine shadow box case housing two specimens, males and female, of Taiwanese (Formosa) Papilio Horishanus tropical swallotail butterflies (Atrophaneura Horishanus.), and annotated as such, surviving from the middle of the twentieth century. The case is in good condition and ready for wall mounting