Taxidermy: A Cased Common Chub (Squalius cephalus), dated 09th December...

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Taxidermy: A Cased Common Chub (Squalius cephalus), dated 09th December 1923, by W.F. Homer, 105 Woodgrange Road, Forest Gate, London, E7, preserved and mounted in a naturalistic setting amidst reeds and grasses, set above a pebbled river bed, mounted against a pale blue painted back drop, enclosed within a typical ebonised bow-fronted three-glass display case with verre eglomise border, 64.5cm by 15cm by 34cm, bearing gilt legend to front glass ''Chub 3lb 2½ozs, Caught at Broxbourne, by T.H. Bryan, 9th Dec 1923''.