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| Beautiful piece, excellent job, congrads to the hunter.
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| Very nice. I really like it with the mouth closed. |
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| fantastic mount! closed mouth, great body posture... nice!
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| Wow!
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| Outstanding. Beautifull work.
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| VERY NICE ! Where from in Africa ? |
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| Wow. Awesome.
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| As a non-professional observer, it seems to me that one of the hardest things for a taxidermist to get right is the face of a cat. This one has it in spades!!!
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| Very very nice congrats! |
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| I am so jealous. I shot a great lion and gave my taxidermist total control on how it was to be mounted. I was/am disapointed. That is the mount I invisioned. In the future, I'll ask for suggestions, but never again give Carte Blanche.
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| quote: gave my taxidermist total control on how it was to be mounted. I was/am disapointed....but never again give Carte Blanche
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| Love that mount-congratulations on a great lion !
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| That is one of the best lion mounts I have seen. Well done.
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| love the action!!!!!!
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| Good work!!! Ben is an artist and a great guy to hunt with as well!!!
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| Double Wow and double amazing. Don't believe I have see one better?
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| Holy smoke. That is incredibly well done. I have always looked at the Tsavo maneaters in Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History as the benchmark for lion mounts -- mostly for sentimental reasons, but also because the taxidermist did so much with what he had. You probably know the story. John Patterson traveled around with those skins for years until he gave a speech in Chicago. The wealthy benefactor, Marshall Field, talked him into selling them to him for the museum. Because Patterson never thought to mount the lions, the skins were not in the greatest shape and the finished mounts were quite a bit smaller than the original lions. Nonetheless, the two mounts make a very dramatic display. You can see numerous pictures by Googling Tsavo lions or seeing them in the Wikipedia entry.
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| Yes indeed! Very nice!  |
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| Nice mount..
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| WOW! Beautiful cat!
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