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Taxidermy: A Cased Common Roach (Rutilus rutilus), mid-20th century, by John Cooper & Sons, 28 Radnor Street, St Luke's, London, EC, (late Griggs), (Rutilus rutilus), Taxidermy: A Cased Common Roach (Rutilus rutilus), mid-20th century, by John Cooper & Sons, 28 Radnor Street, St Luke's, London, EC, (late 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, 50.5cm by 14cm by 31.5cm, taxidermist's full paper trade label to case interior upper left. This particular case is attributed to the latter part 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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