Maharaja has a tiger in the Rolls-fishing fetch $ 1 million

New Delhi: Bonhams auction house will be put under the hammer of a rare Rolls Royce Phantom modified fishing tiger by the Indian Maharaja in the days of British rule, the platform includes a machine gun and cannon, which could fetch up to $ 1 million.
Originally commissioned custom-made 1925 Rolls Royce that Umed Singh II, Maharaja Kotah in the 1920s at a time when Tiger hunting is very popular in India.
The flaming red car, with the roof cloth convertible and features fishing, a detailed, including the rifle double barrel, sheds light on the night fishing and gun Lantaka ride, and is expected to fetch up to $ 1 million when it goes on the block in mid-August in Caramel, California.
"It was very common, and most cars were destined maharajahs specialized manufacturer in the United States and they have even gilted frames and all kinds of things," said Pran Nevile, author and expert in the colonial era in India and known as the British rule.
Car 8.0 liter, 6 cylinder engine with low gearing allowed to "creep strength of the wall through the jungles of Rajasthan," wrote Bonhams.
For centuries, it was a great game hunting tigers, leopards and lions in the forests of India in the Asian favorite pastime of the rulers of the Mughal emperors of India to the British elite.
While the implementation has been a lot of hunting tigers and elephants on the back, taking some Indian maharajahs, or "great kings" of the princely states in India including the arid state of Rajasthan and the things to the max.
"It was more for show, but everything will be ready and then after that would take this Rolls-Royce up to a point or the hills and there from shooting the tiger that was already taken their servants," he told Reuters Nevile.
Indiscriminate fishing, however, destroyed the Bengal tiger population of India estimated from 40,000 a century ago to about 1700 today. Tigers are now the cornerstone of protected species in all parts of Asia from the island of Sumatra in Indonesia to India, China and India.
Known for Indian maharajas high living and spending lavishly on all kinds of decorations, including the ornate palaces and luxury cars and bags for Louis Vuitton.
Use the deputies, or the Governor, State of Hyderabad, the famous Koh - I - Noor diamond, once the largest gems known in the world, paperweight, while the deputies of the small country Junagadh West was famous for spending lavishly on the wedding of his dog.
"They want to live in ostentatious style. Being a lot for Emiri have their own style and great until it has been copied by the British," said Nevile. (Reuters)