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Colin Wyatt SLNSW_FL9723806 from State Library of New South Wales uploaded November 2025
Butterflies from National Library of Medicine uploaded May 2023
Moths and Butterflies from National Library of Medicine uploaded September 2017
Greetings from Dallas, Texas from SMU Libraries Digital Collections uploaded February 2015
British Library digitised image from page 115 of "Little Dorinda: who won and who lost her!" from British Library uploaded January 2015
British Library digitised image from page 37 of "My Little Chinese Book" from British Library uploaded December 2013
British Library digitised image from page 20 of "My Little Chinese Book" from British Library uploaded December 2013
British Library digitised image from page 138 of "Belle and the Dragon. An elfin comedy" from British Library uploaded December 2013
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Red Brushfoot butterfly at the Butterfly World attraction: Coconut Creek, Florida
from Florida Memory
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LEO FANG said:
COOL~
Colin Wyatt SLNSW_FL9723806
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Blue Mountains Library, Local Studies said:
"With his marriage on the rocks and fearing his wife was having an affair, ex-champion skier Colin Wyatt decided to cope the only way he could think of.
He began stealing rare butterflies.
What unfolded over the following months in the late 1940s would become a bizarre search spanning multiple museums and crossing international waters.
It would also involve thousands upon thousands of tiny flying insects.
Hundreds of 'the best specimens' taken from museums across Australia
The first sign of trouble came in early 1947 — some 825 specimens of rare Australian butterflies had disappeared from the Melbourne Museum's George Lyell collection.
When Melbourne raised the alarm, other museums checked their own collections ... "
More - www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-02/history-butterfly-theft-au...
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Jazz Guy said:
Lower left hand corner... I think that is a blotter to dry off signatures on documents. What year did ball point pens replace quill pens? There's a plot twist in a movie titled "Angel Heart" that involves this.
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Jazz Guy said:
And now the big question... Is the bottle of gin in the drawer on his left or on his right? :-)
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State Library of New South Wales said:
I read 'The Butterfly Thief' by Walter Marsh over the weekend and saw the image was in the Library collections. Really amazing that he was able to get them all over to the UK as well..
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Narelle Jarvis said:
What a story! So where was this picture taken and what is he doing with the photographs?