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Fine German Wooden Schuetzen Target with Red Stag Scene

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Fine German Wooden Schuetzen Target with Red Stag Scene
This is a very attractive painted target measuring 29'' featuring a fine mountainous scene with majestic bellowing red stag and retaining quite crisp imagery and colors showing some light flaking, scuffs and dings to be expected. The painting is signed by J. Rau of Munich and the target consists of a single shot from 37 different shooters, no doubt this was a fairly long range target and the impacts all appear to be from the ubiquitous 8.15x46R cartridge. There are a few splits and cracks in the target but it remains very sound overall. Each impact is numbered to its corresponding shooter whose names are painted along the edges of the target while the top edge shows ''Hochzeitschiessen'' (celebratory wedding shoot) and the bottom edge shows ''Gegeben v. Primus Konrad / 27.Octob.1901''. The back side also has the impacts numbered in pencil (probably done on a preliminary basis by the scorer) and Konrad's name in pencil along the top and Konrad was also the first shooter and, logically, probably the one getting married. This is a wonderful target for the advanced schuetzen collector. (13A11108-132-1) [Tom Devers Collection] (700/900)