Trophy-hunting with an Oakland in America

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Many of our readers, we suspect, are trophy-hunters, albeit not according to the usual definition. A typical encyclopædia entry tells us: "Trophy-hunting is a form of hunting for sport in which parts of the hunted wild animals are kept and displayed as trophies. The animal being targeted, known as the ‘game’, is typically a mature male specimen from a popular species of collectable interests... Trophies are often displayed in trophy rooms or game rooms, or in gun rooms along with the hunter's gun collection.”

That particular kind of trophy-hunting, we hardly need mention, has many vociferous opponents. Still, there are other ways in which we can experience the thrill of the chase without resorting to bloodshed; our trophies consist of ancient car parts, rare automobilia and actual motor cars themselves, many of which we have spent months and years tracking down. Our trophy rooms are garages and sheds, barns and workshops, and yes, some of you will have your autmobilia, all round the house, too, perhaps sharing wall space with an antique boar's or deer's head. Feel free to share your images of your own trophy rooms, or "man caves," as the popular term seems to be today.

What do we see here? It must be said this is a lovely picture, which would look very fine mounted in one of our trophy rooms in a suitably period mahogany frame. The original caption from this photograph reads: “Hunters with guns, deer carcass, and Oakland[?] touring car, Bordeaux, Washington, approximately 1919.” Would anyone like to add any more to that?

Words: Jeroen Booij; picture: University of Washington Library
 

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