Euro Mounts

[grand veneur]

So, I have a question for you well traveled guys. I saw many euro mounts while stationed in Germany, but none with the teeth, which is common today, they use a saw jig and cut the top jaw off. It makes a much nicer mount, then with the teeth, I think. My question is why do people call what we have now a euro mount, when it is mostly a American fad?

Traditionally we always had trophies mounted without the teeth, but nowadays it seems to have become to leave them on. All my recent larger African trophies, buffalo and eland, were delivered from my taxidermist to me with their teeth on. I would have preferred it without teeth, but then it is much more difficult in many cases to fix it to a wooden plate.