Yet one more indication that age is taking it's toll. I have been to some of those places I recconise the scenes but I can't remember where I was when I saw it.
Help my tiered old mind out. Wich museums in Austria?
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Posts: 1562 | Location: Alaska | Registered: 05 February 2006
The antlers mounted on pedestals looks very like a display I saw more than 20 years ago at a castle that was the agricultural museum in Budapest. It then contained then the largest red deer and fallow antlers in the world. They were then still building the room that these were to be eventually displayed in, so I don't recognize the background. However, I did peek through a hole in the construction partitioning and there were 2 full-mount red stags permanently locked in combat. I have only seen such a mount at one other trophy display (2,000 chamois + 2 locked stag antlers), at the Kaiservilla near Bad Ischl in Austria. I also visited Kranichstein (Hunting) Castle near Darmstadt but went to the wrong part ! However, there was a hunting horn concert in the courtyard which I chanced upon anyway, so it was a memorable day.
The Munich Hunting & Fishing Museum contains some of the famous Rominten red deer trophies but no-one was allowed to take photos. So it was nice to see the link provided which does.
It would be interesting, of course, to know the name/s of the location/s displayed, now that you have lured us to your bait !
Posts: 19 | Location: New Zealand | Registered: 19 January 2010
I found a number of these photos on the Flickr website, and many of them are of Vajdahunyard Castle, so those are the same (then) world record red and fallow deer that I saw. In fact I published photos of these antlers in New Zealand Hunting & Wildlife magazine back then and also some measurement details. I later visited the areas they came from.
Another hunting exhibition in a castle is the Netherland's Hunting Museum in Kasteel Doorwerth in Arnhem. The nearby John Frost Bridge was made famous in the war film, "A Bridge Too Far" and there are large war cemetries nearby. The film makers actually flew to New Zealand to interview our "Uncle" Chris who played a key role in the Dutch resistance in this battle.
The highlight at Doorwerth for me was a genuine duck punt complete with punt gun and it's accessories. If you've spent any time in Holland, the other attraction was that this area was not flat !
Posts: 19 | Location: New Zealand | Registered: 19 January 2010
