Taxidermy: A Cased Common Carp (Cyprinus carpio), dated July 1947

Taxidermy: A Cased Common Carp (Cyprinus carpio), dated July 1947, (Cyprinus carpio), Cyprinus carpio), dated July 1947, a cast of a prized caught carp, presented and mounted within a naturalistic setting amidst reeds and weeds, set above a pebbled riverbed, mounted against a painted pale-blue backdrop, enclosed within a typical ebonised bow-fronted three-glass display case with verre eglomise border, 63cm by 16cm by 34cm, bearing hand-written legend to interior upper left - " Common-Carp, Caught by D. E. Lawson, River Trent, July 1st 1947, Wgt 6lbs 7ozs"

Estimate:$198.14

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