Taxidermy: A Cased Northern Pike (Esox lucius), 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 pale blue/green back drop, enclosed within a typical ebonised bow-fronted three-glass display case with verre eglomise border, 104cm by 20cm by 41.5cm, taxidermist's full paper trade label to interior upper left, gold legend to front glass ''Pike 15lbs, caught at Slapton Ley, 28th April 1935''