Color chart for butterflies ?

Chris J. Durden drdn at mail.utexas.edu
Thu Oct 21 12:52:25 EDT 1999


>Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 10:49:50 -0500
>To: "Kondla, Norbert FOR:EX" <Norbert.Kondla at gems3.gov.bc.ca>
>From: "Chris J. Durden" <drdn at mail.utexas.edu>
>Subject: RE: Color chart for butterflies ?
>In-Reply-To: <60F1FEB31CA3D211A1B60008C7A45F43A414DA at blaze.bcsc.gov.bc.ca>
>
>Stamp Colour Key, 1994
>Stanley Gibbons Item No. 2530
>
>I recall that it cost about US$19 last year here in Austin.
>It has 200 named colors and shades, displaid on 25 strips. These strips
are 1 inch x 7 3/4 inch, post bound at the left, between plastic covers.
>This item is available at most better stamp shops.
>The color names are not wierd -
> eg. dull scarlet, carmine-vermilion, scarlet-vermilion, vermilion,
orange-vermilion, dull vermilion, brown-red, Venetian red.
> eg. plum, purple, deep mauve, bright mauve, mauve, bright purple, deep
magenta, magenta.
> These colors have been used by many thousands of stamp collectors for
nearly 100 years. They are very close to color names used in the rival
Scott Catalog  (I checked). This is probably the "standard" color name set
accepted by the most users over the longest period of time.
>It does not however have "fuscous" the classical name for fritillary
ground color.
>...........Chris
>
>
>At 08:27  21/10/99 -0700, you wrote:
>>Thx. Nothing better yet but then I have not seen any of the variety that
>>folks have mentioned so do not know how they compare. Hoping that someone
>>will mention something about a Smythe color chart that I seem to recall
>>being mentined somewhere. About the stamp color key you mention, does it use
>>names for the colors and does it include most colors found in our
>>butterflies and how much does it cost
>>
>>> ----------
>>> From: 	Chris J. Durden[SMTP:drdn at mail.utexas.edu]
>>> Sent: 	Thursday, October 21, 1999 8:22 AM
>>> To: 	Kondla, Norbert FOR:EX
>>> Subject: 	Re: Color chart for butterflies ?
>>> 
>>>   Two color keys I use because they are on my desk for other puroposes are
>>> -
>>> Geological Society of America Rock Color Chart
>>> Stanley Gibbons Stamp Colour Key
>>>   I would like to use the Munsel Color Chart but have never been able to
>>> afford a copy.
>>>   I like the stamp colour key because there is a hole in the center of
>>> each
>>> color patch. This facilitates matching a color seen through the hole.
>>>   Let me know if you find something better.
>>> .........Chris Durden
>>> 
>>> At 02:46  20/10/99 -0700, you wrote:
>>> >Anyone know of a standard color chart/color terminology for describing
>>> >butterfly colors ? If no clear standard, please feel welcome to mention
>>> your
>>> >preferred version and where this can be purchased.  
>>> >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>> >Norbert Kondla  P.Biol., RPBio.
>>> >Forest Ecosystem Specialist, Ministry of Environment
>>> >845 Columbia Avenue, Castlegar, British Columbia V1N 1H3
>>> >Phone 250-365-8610
>>> >Mailto:Norbert.Kondla at gems3.gov.bc.ca
>>> >http://www.env.gov.bc.ca
>>> >
>>> >
>>> 
>>


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