| xausa |
| (.400 member) |
| 28/03/15 09:31 PM |
Re: Mannlicher Schönauer at auction
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This last Mannlicher has quite funny engravings; at first glance, the animal in magazines bottom looks in my eyes like a kind of beaver but then I noticed that it would intend to be male lion....
With that long nose, totally out of proportion to the rest of the face, I think it greatly resembles a baboon. Still, not much worse than the "tigers" Jeffery used to put on their double rifles.