Marakkai and pwm,

The German print is almost identical to the Raj era hunt paintings both by British as well as by Indian artists that I have seen. The line engraving on the Jeffery is different and very similar to South Indian temple paintings. The reason I am saying this is that in ancient India, when many of the temples were built by carving into rock in aroung AD 900, there was no way to stabilise the colour yellow in paint and tigers were carved into the rocks in outline. Many years later, the Muslims brought yellow pigment to India and the line carvings were just filled in with the yellow pigment fully, without any depth ot domension to the painting. Unless you see the sight close up, you would not understand the difference between the German picture and the engraving on the rifle. I'll try and find some links and e-mail them to you to show you what I mean.

Good hunting!