Antique chromolithograph butterfly plate from Macrolepidoptera of the World, Volume 5, Dr. Adelbert Seitz, Editor. Mechanitis - Ceratinia - Plate 34 a black mechanical pencil or

a black mechanical pencil or one of those plus some number of coins

though it may naturally develop a slight tarnish

Though the seller did not want to disclose the location

We don't have locality data other than "Mexico

A French edition was published by Le Moult in Paris and never completed

Antique chromolithograph butterfly plate from Macrolepidoptera of the World, Volume 5, Dr. Adelbert Seitz, Editor. Mechanitis - Ceratinia - Plate 34 a black mechanical pencil orThe Seitz plates are spectacular examples of scientific illustration and printing from the early 1900s. The use of metallic inks is unusual and makes some plates particularly dynamic. These were printed over a period from 1907 to 1954, with interruptions by two World Wars. All of these plates will mat and frame handsomely. They measure 9 3 4 " x 13" with a roughly 1 1 4" margin outside the black frame line. They are on a cream paper that is only very