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Old January 25, 2012, 07:57 AM   #16
Double Naught Spy
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When I worked at the Dallas Museum of Natural History, we had a considerable number of mounts donated from the estate of Herb Klein, a fairly noteworthy Dallas hunter back in the 40s, 50s, 60s, and until until 1975.
http://news.google.com/newspapers?ni...g=7175,3183583

Along with the mounts came a lot of Klein's photographs from his trips around the world which included various places in Africa, India, and Iran, Pakistan (that I can recall that were labelled). Several of the latter three showed the locals with their guns that weren't all that different from the OP's camel gun. Some were identified by manufacturer or country of origin and all were individually decorated. What made the guns interesting was they they spanning the entire spectrum of British Colonialism in the region and were still in use, handed down generation after generation.

Sort of like with the OP's camel gun, we might not consider the personalized decoration to be very pretty, but they were considered very beautiful by the people who used them and were symbols of pride and status.
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