Taxidermy: A Cased Common Bream (Abramis brama), by John Cooper & Sons, 28 Radnor Street, St Luke's, London, EC, (Griggs), preserved and mounted in a naturalistic setting amidst reeds and grasses, set above a pebbled river bed, mounted against a painted graduated blue/green back drop, enclosed within a typical ebonised bow-fronted three-glass display case with verre eglomise border, 58.5cm by 13.5cm by 34.5cm, taxidermist's full paper trade label to interior upper right, gold legend to front glass - "Bream, caught in the River Bure, Sept 1938"

This case is of the era when William Griggs took over the running of John Cooper from around 1933, he carried on trading from Bath Road, Hounslow, Middlesex after moving the business there in 1939 until his passing in 1953, William (Bertie) Griggs was regarded as one of the master exponents of preserving fish