Taxidermy: A Cased Common Roach (Rutilus rutilus), dated December

Taxidermy: A Cased Common Roach (Rutilus rutilus), dated December 1934, by John Cooper & Sons, 28 Radnor Street, St Luke's, London, EC, (Griggs), (Rutilus rutilus), Taxidermy: A Cased Common Roach (Rutilus rutilus), dated December 1934, by John Cooper & Sons, 28 Radnor Street, St Luke's, London, EC, (Griggs), a skin-mount preserved and mounted within a naturalistic setting amidst reeds and grasses, set above a pebbled riverbed, mounted against a graduated pale-green painted backdrop, enclosed within a typical ebonised bow-fronted three-panel display case with gilded border, 51.5cm by 13.5cm by 31.5cm, taxidermist's full paper trade label to case interior upper right, bearing gilt legend to front-glass -" Roach 2lbs 1½ ozs, Caught by F. Perry at the Elms, Rickmansworth, 26th Dec: 1934". This case is of the William Griggs era, who took over the running of John Cooper from around 1933 and carried on trading from Bath Road, Hounslow until he passed away in 1953, William (Bertie) Griggs was regarded as one of the master exponents of preserving fish and his skills can be clearly seen within this case, This case is of the William Griggs era, who took over the running of John Cooper from around 1933 and carried on trading from Bath Road, Hounslow until he passed away in 1953, William (Bertie) Griggs was regarded as one of the master exponents of preserving fish and his skills can be clearly seen within this case

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