Taxidermy: An Early Cased Common Rudd (Scardinius erythrophthalmus)

Taxidermy: An Early Cased Common Rudd (Scardinius erythrophthalmus), dated July 1878, by John Cooper & Sons, 28 Radnor Street, St Luke's, London, EC, (Scardinius erythrophthalmus), Taxidermy: An Early Cased Common Rudd (Scardinius erythrophthalmus), dated July 1878, by John Cooper & Sons, 28 Radnor Street, St Luke's, London, EC, a skin-mount preserved and mounted within a naturalistic setting amidst reeds and grasses, set above a pebbled riverbed, mounted against a pale-blue painted backdrop, enclosed within a typical ebonised bow-fronted display case with gilded border, 48cm by 14cm by 31.5cm, taxidermist's full paper trade label to case interior upper right, bearing hand-written paper legend to interior upper left -"Caught by Mr R. B. Dobree, in the Broad Water, Hatfield House, July 1878, Weight 2¼ lbs, Total weight on that day 76lbs"

Estimate:£280

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