Vintage Safari Pictures

[BRICKBURN]

Danke for the museum tour.
Incredible to see the history.

FREIBRIEF or Free Letter/Certificate

 

[Foxi]

Pat Hemingway with two of his buffalo - strong ones

Pat Hemingway (left) and his Kudu

Pat and Anno Hecker

 

[ack]

Love these old time pictures..

 

[HeinrichH]

Love these pictures!!!

 

[Wheels]

Old exhibits from Tansania

one hour from Munic is a monastery from the Benediktiner,called St.Ottilien.
In 1887 they sent their first missionary to East Africa-Tanganiyka,a former colony by the German Kaiser Reich (until 1918 end of WW I ).
African history over history.

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And I show you a few pics of their trophys,but dont forget,most of them are 120 years old and not so good in shape anymore
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a hunting monk,I m sure he has a Mauser in his hands.

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Monks trophy wall
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Dagga boy

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Suadan-Askaris ,the famous troops fo the German army (Deutsche Schutztruppe called) in Africa.
The Germans had also south-africanZulus,but from the Sudan mostly.
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"born to be wild" Missionary vehicle, an old BMW.
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Lions from Iringa.
Older than Pattersons "maneater of Tsavo".
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This is a Slave-FREIBRIEF.
I dont know the English word for.
An official German document for a slave that says now he is free.
Look at point 8.
Slave by Selemani.
The same Selemani who shot the world record elephant ................... ?
Time and country could be right.
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OK,the taxidermy ist not urgent breathtaking,but the ivory is not so bad.
I guess it in the good 60 pounder class and up

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Tansania non resident hunting license from 1905.
Costs: 10 Rupien
@Wheels,what do you think was 10 Rupies in those days ?

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Wahehe tribesman.
The Wahehe was the most most developed warrior-tribe in Tanganyka.
They hunted their neighbours like hares and pheasants, to sell them to their arabic slave trader compagnons.
The reasons for the first arabic riots at the end of the 19th century in East Africa was, that the British and the Germans stopped slave trading.
A business where lot of people was earning lot of money.Really big business in those days.
Every balance sheet has two sides.
Pax Britannica +
Pax Germanica stopped slave hunting and trading.
The people lost their salvechains ,
No famines anymore
Domestic security now,an absolute NoGo before.
european medicine and hygiene.

But these facts are forgotten today and none wants to know about it a little bit more.
Thank you that you visit with me this monastary museum.
Foxi

Foxi,

Love your museum photos. Thank you.

Noticed you tagged me but it didn't come through. Just seeing this now.

To answer your questions on what is 10 Rupies worth in 1905, I don't know but will try to give an approximate answer. From what I have read,(If I remember correct) there were 20 shillings to one pound sterling. I don't know about 1905, but around 1920 there was an exchange rate change that greatly affected British East Africa. The shilling was devalued against the rupie. I believe the rupie was worth around two shillings. If this is correct, then 10 rupies would have been worth apx. 1 pound sterling. Or 1 GBP. I may be off but that would be my educated guess.

You have the statue of the Wahehe tribesman. The Hehe are from around Iringa. They fought the Germans hard. The Wahehe Chief was Mkwawa. He defeated the German comander Zeleweski (sp). Later the Germans came and defeated the Wahehe around 1900. Chief Mkwawa's skull was removed and taken to Germany. The skull was returned in the 1950's and is at a museum outside of Iringa. I have been told it is not worth going to the museum, but need to one day. Chief Mkwawa is a hero to the people in Southern Tanzania. Not sure about all of Tanzania, but he is probably a hero there as well.

Thanks for sharing this piece of history. As you know, I enjoy this kind of thing.

 

[cpr0312]

Thanks for sharing the museum pics @Foxi !

 

[rinehart0050]

Old exhibits from Tansania

one hour from Munic is a monastery from the Benediktiner,called St.Ottilien.
In 1887 they sent their first missionary to East Africa-Tanganiyka,a former colony by the German Kaiser Reich (until 1918 end of WW I ).
African history over history.

View attachment 171143
And I show you a few pics of their trophys,but dont forget,most of them are 120 years old and not so good in shape anymore
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a hunting monk,I m sure he has a Mauser in his hands.

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Monks trophy wall
View attachment 171148

Dagga boy

View attachment 171149
Suadan-Askaris ,the famous troops fo the German army (Deutsche Schutztruppe called) in Africa.
The Germans had also south-africanZulus,but from the Sudan mostly.
View attachment 171150

"born to be wild" Missionary vehicle, an old BMW.
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Lions from Iringa.
Older than Pattersons "maneater of Tsavo".
View attachment 171154

This is a Slave-FREIBRIEF.
I dont know the English word for.
An official German document for a slave that says now he is free.
Look at point 8.
Slave by Selemani.
The same Selemani who shot the world record elephant ................... ?
Time and country could be right.
View attachment 171155
OK,the taxidermy ist not urgent breathtaking,but the ivory is not so bad.
I guess it in the good 60 pounder class and up

View attachment 171156

Tansania non resident hunting license from 1905.
Costs: 10 Rupien
@Wheels,what do you think was 10 Rupies in those days ?

View attachment 171157

Wahehe tribesman.
The Wahehe was the most most developed warrior-tribe in Tanganyka.
They hunted their neighbours like hares and pheasants, to sell them to their arabic slave trader compagnons.
The reasons for the first arabic riots at the end of the 19th century in East Africa was, that the British and the Germans stopped slave trading.
A business where lot of people was earning lot of money.Really big business in those days.
Every balance sheet has two sides.
Pax Britannica +
Pax Germanica stopped slave hunting and trading.
The people lost their salvechains ,
No famines anymore
Domestic security now,an absolute NoGo before.
european medicine and hygiene.

But these facts are forgotten today and none wants to know about it a little bit more.
Thank you that you visit with me this monastary museum.
Foxi

Thanks for sharing the photos! I love seeing hunting history!

 

[Witold Krzyżanowski]

I agree with BRICKBURN.
Witold

 

[MARTIN PIETERS SAFARIS]

Folks thought I would share a few pics of some of the trophies my clients took with me in Botswana when I hunted there ( 1996-2006 ), memories that I shall never forget.

94 pound elephant
Top 10 lion
32" plus sitatunga ( # 2 at the time )
Top 15 leopard
Some wonderful memories with the late General Norman Schwarzkopf
A great pic with Juan Carlos
A very exciting hunt with Clayton Williams.

 

[BRICKBURN]

How to be popular in Spain.

 

[Wheels]

How to be popular in Spain.

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Love your sarcasm Brick.

 

[Foxi]

that was bad news for him .
On the top of the last oeconomic crisis,he asked his people for modesty .
And than,the spain press brought topical pics from his ( expensive ) hunt ,
when his majesty was in Botswana elephant hunting,furthermore with a german girlfriend .
Ouch.
But,when I translated the Spain headlines at this time fairly correct.
The elephant kill was not the problem for the Spanish.
The heap of money was it.
Whoever is without sin throws the first stone.
Foxi

 

[Foxi]

the African addicted artist Wilhelm Kuhnert ( 1864-1926)

Wilhelm Kuhnert was the most famous animal artist during the Kaiser Wilhelm II. time (1888-1918) in Germany.
He made three or four expeditions to Tanganyika,German East Africa named at these times.He was a hunter as well.
A neat article is in the actually newspaper "hunters path" about him.
During one journey he had to fight with James Sutherland (what a coincidence) against the Maji-Maji rebells,at the battle of Mahenge 1905.

with brush and gun.Both always in reach.

Kuhnert with one elephant ,shot in Tansania ,long before WW I.

cleaning after lunchtime. "the MANEATER"
"Custers Demand" was painted by Charles Schreyvogel ,

this is, Kuhnerts most famous painting.

the Brits called him lion-king,for his fable for that animals.

Regards from Munich
Foxi
(always fascinated by old African tracks)

 

[Foxi]

ouch:
"Custers Demand" was painted by Charles Schreyvogel,not Frederic Remington.
Sorry for that, I don't wont to change the artists of American Wild West history
Jerome,I always notice my mistakes after your short 30 minutes limit .
Colpa mia,but a foreign language is not so easy.

 

[rinehart0050]

Thanks for sharing. I really like his lion paintings... here's another I particularly like:

 

[Foxi]

Rinehart,
in the age of expressionism he was working,the intellectual saw him as an artist from yesterday.
But no chance.He wanted to copy 1:1
I love both.Here a lion from Kuhnert,like your avartar pic is:

Naturalism style .Kuhnert panited so in the days of expressionism

a wonderful example of expressionism
"The TIGER" from Franz Marc

"The Tiger" from Kuhnert.
Which one do you prefer ?
Regards
Foxi

 

[jeff]

I'm not intellectual enough to appreciate the expressionism but I love both the lion and tigers,

 

[Foxi]

 

[rinehart0050]

Great paintings! I'm planning on buying the one I shared earlier- I really like how many of his paintings are of pairs of animals, engaged in some activity or other.

The nice thing is that many of his painting are available from the various art printing companies out there, for reasonable prices.

 

[Foxi]

The following pics are all from the 50ies and early 60ies .
For us Africahunter,the good old times .
Not to belive

1945, after the WW II., there was a man , Odo Willscher from Hamburg/Germany, who had one of the most experienced hunting-agencys in the German speaking parts of Europe until the end of the 70ies.
Very specialized to Uganda and Oubangi Chari/CAR and Sudan.

Ugandas capital city Kampala after Independence 1962

a sport student at the Victoria lake.
What may she and her family have turned into ?
The terror of Milton Obote and a few years later, the complete crazy one Idi Amin.
Uganda,the pearl of Africa,ruined by terrorists.

Monster on your hook-Nilperches

Kapitaler Nilbüffel.
Very strong nilebuffalo.
Everyone can see ,that this is not an easy prey !!

Oubangui Chari
One of the hunters paradise we lost.
The "emperor" Bokassa knocked it out.

The man, front right is Henri Quintard.
Henri Quintard was one of the most famous PH's in Centralafrica.
@ Monish,a further figure for your "Legend" chapters
Odo Willscher and Quintard was very good friends and partner at these time.
Not natural between a German and a French,so close after the war.

the headtracker from Henry Quintard
"Bella Chita"
On his shoulder, Willschers beloved Original Brennecke rifle ,with Brennecke cartridge 9,3x64 with a Zeiss Diavari on.
Willscher was the biggest promoter of the 9,3x64 in that days (with 300 gn Brennecke TUG and FMJ)

A slogan was : Volkswagen (VW) never break down.
No 4wheel drive through Oubangui Chari.
Look at the windshield,aircondition, as it was in the old days (not so long ago)

Strong savanna-buffalo, guided by Henry Quintard ,shot with 9,3x64 Brennecke.

Strong elephant from Oubangui Chari.Upper Mbomou river.
64 pound each. The teeth looking stronger as they are.
But the lenght is enormous 232 cm (92 inch ).

So ,Im ready for today.
And tomorrow I go skiclosing in the mountains .
Wish you a happy and a good week before Easter.
(And God a kind hand over the destiny from Scott van Zyl and his tortured family).

Regards from Munich
Foxi