2010.95.19

Collection Date: January 1929 (Trinidad); September 26, 1928 (Apex Oil Fields)
7.125 in HIGH x 5.125 in WIDE x 0.6875 in DEEP
Trinidad

Apex Oil Fields

Gift of the Walt Disney Family Foundation
2010.95.19


Six (6) butterflies in a Riker Mount which is a thin, glass-topped, cotton-filled exhibition case.   They are arranged in three columns. The top three butterflies are white with thick brown stripes.  The top has thin brown stripes.  The bottom three top wings are yellow on top and orange on the bottom.  Both have dark brown spots. They range in size from 1 9/16 x 1 1/8 to 1 1/2  x 2 5/8.  The butterfly on the far left side is folded as is the one on the far right bottom corner.   VERSO: In pencil "Trinidad Jan [obstructed, possibly 11]. 1929 Apex Oil Fields Trinidad Sept 26, 1928"

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