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casper50	India hunting photos?	Lead	[-]
Lance Sergeant Posts: 122 Mar 18 09 9:11 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Tags : None I'm looking for old hunting photos taken in India from around 1880 to 1940. I am setting up an educational display that I am going to take to gunshows. If anyone knows where I can look or find some I 'd appreciate it. I am trying to focus on the guns used during that time frame and the game taken with them. Thanks
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Carignan Salieres		#1	[-]
Veteran of the Regiment Posts: 5553 Mar 22 09 8:24 AM Swashbuckler Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I have been looking around a bit but have not found much. I suspect there were a lot of doubles, Lee-Speeds, and Martini's used there during that period. I will let you know if I find anything good. -Ryan
casper50		#2	[-]
Lance Sergeant Posts: 122 Mar 22 09 8:40 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Thanks. I have an Alex Henry double in 450-400 2 3/8" BPE, a Westley Model 1871 in 577-500 #2 BPE and a Steyr Model 1893 in 6.5mm to use in the display. Might add my .318 WR Westley takedown if I can get a good date on it.
Carignan Salieres		#3	[-]
Veteran of the Regiment Posts: 5553 Mar 22 09 9:03 AM Swashbuckler Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Sounds like a good display. I am sure there would have been a few US guns used there too, though to a lesser extent than the British stuff. But rolling blocks, Sharps, and Winchester would have made their mark there. -Ryan
The Double D		#4	[-]
Veteran of the Regiment Posts: 9668 Mar 22 09 9:08 AM Moderator Emeritus Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Casper50, Did you ask the guys over an NE Express forum for those hunting pictures? One of them will surely come up with something Douglas "And don't forget. That isn't your Martini you have. It belonged to others before you and will belong to others after you are gone. Look after it, and pass it on with pride. It deserves it." Malcolm Cobb, The Martini Henry Note-book ******* To find things Martini go to: WWW.MartiniHenry.com**
GrantR Canada		#5	[-]
Veteran of the Regiment Posts: 3537 Mar 22 09 9:10 PM Forum Wallah Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	How about this? None other than King George V on a hunt with the Maharaja of Nepal in December 1911! It is one of 50 online photographs from that hunt (during which 39 tigers were killed, among other game) from a book chronicling the excursion, starting here: http://oldindianphotos.blogspot.com/2008/12/king-george-vs-hunting-in-nepal-in.html Another photograph of the King from that hunt, though not from the above book - Some others from elsewhere on the same site - Hunting party, Lower Bengal "In Camp" A few others from elsewhere - Skinning tiger, 1880 - Burma 1886 - 1903 - Lord Curzon (Viceroy of India) and Lady Curzon - Lord and Lady Curzon on another hunt- . 1920- Not a photograph, admittedly, but one of several period engravings illustrating a series of excerpts from a 19th Century book on hunting in India .... the excerpt related to the above image is here (and the others are accessible from a set of links at the bottom of the page ....) - http://www.logoi.com/notes/hunting_in_india_elephants.html Here are two lists (with links) of a fair number of books dating from the 19th Century and into the early 20th Century which are readable (or downloadable) in their entirety in PDF and other formats (many of which incorporate the original illustrations and photographs) - http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Hunting%20--%20India%22 http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/browse?type=lcsubc&key=Hunting%20--%20India Grant Rombough Medicine Hat, Alberta Canada ("Rattlesnake Jack Robson", Scout, Rocky Mountain Rangers, 1885) WEBSITE: "RATTLESNAKE JACK'S"
casper50		#6	[-]
Lance Sergeant Posts: 122 Mar 22 09 10:13 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Thanks Grant. Mike
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freddo		#7	[-]
Veteran of the Regiment Posts: 1418 Mar 23 09 4:32 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Tiger tiger burning bright In the forest of the night What immortal hand or eye could frame thy fearful symetry In what distant deeps or skys burns the fire of thine eyes On what wings dare he aspire .What the hand dare sieze the fire. and what shoulder and what art could twist the sinews of thy heart and when thy heart began to beat what dread hand forged thy dread feet What the hammer. What the chain in what furnace was thy brain What the anvil What dread grasp dare your deadly terrors clasp And when the stars threw down their spears and watered heaven with their tears did he smile his work to see .Did he who made the lamb make thee Tiger tiger burning bright in the forest of the night What immortal hand or eye dare frame thy fearful symetry/ William Blake I consider these pictures to be obscene! PS That looks like a Winchester that mummy is holding. Last Edited By: freddo Mar 23 09 5:36 AM. Edited 3 times.
Johnny Yuma		#8	[-]
Veteran of the Regiment Posts: 1341 Jul 2 10 1:37 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Very interesting thread. While I was reading it I remembered seeing 2 Winchester Mod.1895's advertised which were likely used as tiger hunting rifles. One, in .405 WCF is marked 'Manton & Co. Calcutta' and was made in 1920, The other in.35 WCF is marked Walter Locke & Co. Calcutta & Lahore, made in 1913. There are pictures and interesting descriptions of them on the Goodmansguns website. Johnny
Berkley	.3	#9	[-]
Sergeant Posts: 137 Nov 5 10 5:06 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I have lost the caption that identified the maharajah shown in this photo, which also qualifies as obscene in its own way. An image from a different world.
Old Coaster		#10	[-]
Colour Sergeant Posts: 265 Nov 7 10 7:48 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	The photos above of the Viceroy and his Lady with the unfortunate tiger bring to mind the piece of doggerel that 'dogged' him all his life, composed by a fellow Oxford undergraduate: "My name is George Nathaniel Curzon, I am a most superior person, My cheeks are pink, my hair is sleek, I dine at Blenheim twice a week." It is an undisputed fact Curzon had a very high opinion of his own status and abilities - Churchill couldn't abide him! I like the story ( I have been unable to verify it unfortunately) that while Viceroy he had cause to punish the 9th Lancers over some unseemly riots in the bazaars following on from the alleged murder of an Indian cook by some troopers of that regiment. Later at a New Delhi durbar, the 9th were trotting past the Viceroy's dais in full review order, commanded by their Colonel to 'Eyes Right!' each Troop in turn very pointedly gave Lord Curzon an 'Eyes Left' leaving him in no doubt as to their true feelings.
sail32		#11	[-]
O/R Posts: 16 Jan 18 11 10:31 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	It is a pity that Jim Corbett did not carry a camera during his hunting of man eating tigers and leopards.
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