Taxidermy: Indian Leopard Skin Rug (Panthera pardus fusca), dated to 1933, by Van Ingen & Van Ingen, Taxidermist's, Mysore, India, no.109040, a superb high quality young adult female skin rug with snarling open-mouthed head mount, glass eyes, backed on to typical Van Ingen & Van Ingen canvas backing, with black felt scalloped border, 205cm long nose to tail, 134cm wide across forelimbs, unusual to have eye brow whiskers and facial whiskers still present, Van Ingen Van Ingen care label to verso, stencilled number - 109040 to canvas verso. Entry within gamebook - taken by Capt W.E.G. Hemming, R.A, on Monday 01st of May 1933, Jarida, Central India, "shot in daylight stealing from a Tigers kill, on the road to Biba". Later in his service Capt W.E.G. Hemming became Major General commanding the UK garrison in Malta post-war, photographed in Malta with Lord Mountbatten and the Duke of Edinburgh to his left, to include photocopies of the original gamebook entry, photograph of Major General Hemming with the Duke of Edinburgh and Lord Mountbatten, and entry into the Van Ingen & Van Ingen order books.