a better pic of the last simgapor tiger killed in teh 1930s

javan tiger(?)

old pics from Iran

russian cossacks fighting against a caspian tiger

Iran 1912

Iran 1959

"The last Caspian tigers

In Iraq, the only reported Caspian tiger was killed near Mosul in 1887.[12] The last known tiger in the Causasus region was killed in 1922 near Tbilisi, Georgia, after taking domestic livestock. They disappeared from the Tarim River basin in Xinjiang in the 1920s.[13][14] In Kazakhstan, the last tiger was recorded in 1948 in the environs of the Ili River, their last stronghold in the region of Lake Balkhash.[5] In Turkmenistan, the last tiger was killed in January 1954 in the valley of the Sumbar River in the Kopet-Dag Range.[15] In Iran's Golestān Province, one of the last tigers was shot in 1953; one individual was sighted in the area in 1958.[16] In the Tian Shan mountains west of Ürümqi in China, the last Caspian tigers disappeared from the Manasi River basin in the 1960s. The last record from the lower reaches of the Amu-Darya river near the Aral Sea was an unconfirmed observation near Nukus in 1968. By the early 1970s, tigers disappeared from the river’s lower reaches and the Pyzandh Valley in the Turkmen-Uzbek-Afghan border region.[5]

There are claims of a documented killing of a tiger at Uludere, Hakkari in Turkey in 1970.[17][18] Questionnaire surveys conducted in southeastern Turkey revealed one to eight tigers were killed each year in eastern Turkey until the mid-1980s, and tigers likely had survived in the region until the early 1990s." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspian_tiger

finally I find the origin of the tiger head you see in pre WW 1 german gun catalogues to point on dangerous game rifles

obviously it was taken as some kind of "freeware" from the guide for the zoological garden Berlin showing a Sunda Tiger what mean the typ of malayan, sumatran and javan tiger