COSTLY BUTTERFLIES
MILLIONAIRE’S COLLECTION. [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYBIGHT.] LONDON, March 12. Mr James John Joicey, who has just died,'was the possessor of the second largest private collection of butterflies in the world, reported to number 1,500,000. 1 He had been spending from £7OOO to £lO,OOO annually on the collection, having agents in all parts of the world. The collection was possible because he was the son of a millionaire, but. his hobby on6e brought Mr / Joicey into the Bankruptcy Court, where ho stated he was unable to live on £20,000 a year. He started a his hobby forty years ago. It is expected that the collection. Will be be- [ queathed to the nation. -- .
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Greymouth Evening Star, 14 March 1932, Page 5
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