325 A rare River Wye Pike

mounted by Hardy Bros. within a naturalistic riverbed setting, gilt lined and bow fronted display case, gilt inscribed Caught at Horseshoe Bend, Litton Court, River Wye, Hereford, 12.20pm, Jan. 16^th 1905, Weight 30lbs” blue/green backboard mounted with the slotted silver devon minnow used to capture the specimen, case 52 ¾” wide. The capture of this fine specimen fish by the Rev. Tom Seccombe Gray is detailed and illustrated in Fred Buller’s Pike and the Pike Angler (see illustration)

£1000-1500