NitroX
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| 24/12/23 06:46 PM |
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Re: Rigby "Tsavo" edition Mausers
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The skulls weren’t used in the taxidermy, they are actually part of the museum display.
The one photo of Patterson with one of them shows a pretty standard looking lion head shape.
The skins were used as rugs by Patterson so when they were sold to the Chicago Field Museum, they were really too small to be used as a full mount - that is why the legs look unusually thin and really, the lions look thin overall.
I put the long faces down to the taxidermist.
Thanks for that information.
If I was getting a "Tsavo" themed rifle custom made for me personally, I'd go for a realistic full faced maneless male lion face on engraving.
Rigby seems to have used the Field Museum full(ish) body mount image or face. Fair enough decision. Up to their customers who buy the rifles.
I'd also go for a real skull look. Perhaps a small pile of them.
On the subject, there was a German painting of maneating lions. With a victim. Rather gruesome. A macabre painting for the wall. Perhaps not pleasant relaxed viewing.
A Tsavo rifle for me would be a ,400. Perhaps a .404. Not remotely historically accurate, Only a Lee Speed type rifle in .303 would be.