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Vintage Butterfly Display Box, 1957 & 1958  Baltimore Maryland Area

$ 42.24

Availability: 100 in stock
  • Material: Mixed Materials
  • Handmade: Yes
  • Featured Refinements: Butterfly Taxidermy
  • All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
  • Condition: Very interesting and unusual display in very good condition.
  • Type: Box

    Description

    This display box was created by a student during 1957 and 1958 for the Baltimore Science Fair. The box is in excellent condition and measures 16” x 12” x 2". The box is heavy, solid pressed cardboard with well-fitting plexiglass lid. There is minor discoloration, or age spots inside the box which can be seen in photos.
    This box
    contains 44 butterflies:
    Little Wood Satyr, Wood Nymph, Alfalfa, Sulphurs, Cabbage Whites, Skippers, Gray Hairstreak, Spring Azure, Tailed Blue Everes
    Most of the butterflies have neatly handwritten labels with the type of butterfly, where it was found, and the date it was found. Locations include Maryland counties of Baltimore, Frederick, and Carroll, and Gambrill, Maryland.
    The box comes with an original Certificate of Participation from the 1958
    Baltimore Science Fair, which has original signatures from the President of the Johns Hopkins University and the Kiwanis Club or North Baltimore. The certificate is in excellent condition.
    Note, I cannot guarantee the accuracy of butterfly identification; I am selling the set as-is, as found.