1965 Crufts Dog Show – England- video and catalog of chow entry
Above and below you will find screen shots I took from the video (scroll down) highlighting a few of the chows benched at the 1965 Crufts Dog Show in England…including a SMOOTH!. You will see the chows on the video at about time marker 5:56. Curiosity got the best of me , so I went […]
CHOW BRAND Mt. Dora Fruit growers – Crate Labels and sign
Over the years of collecting Chow ephemera, I have run across the two beautiful vintage 1940-1950’s citrus crate labels you see at the bottom of this collage, a number of times. The blue one was a gift from my friend Layla! I adore the graphics and even have the black one hanging in my kitchen. […]
Circa 1896- Photo of puppy class at the Ladies Kennel Association show – England
LADIES KENNEL ASSOCIATION THE FIRST 100 YEARS (photo credit) – The puppy class circa 1896 The article below was one of two that I had saved for reference written by Nic Waters of Dog World UK magazine, which no longer exists since July 2017. The photo was so tiny and I did my […]
Circa 1903 – Hildewell Tao Mu- Article , photos and artwork
SOURCE: HAMSHERE GALLERY – HILDEWELL TAO MU BY ARTIST MONICA GRAY The article below is by Nic Waters, talented writer for Dog World UK.. This outstanding magazine unfortunately closed for business recently, and I am so glad I saved this article for reference and felt it would disappear altogether if I didn’t archive it here […]
1937 TRAUDL STARK – Austrian born child actress with a chow
Thank you so much to ChowTales reader Jeff Austin, for letting me know about this lovely photo up for auction of Traudl Stark. I know I have this somewhere in my collection and could not find it to save me, so I went ahead and purchased this original very large 5×7 original cigarette photo card […]
The Kennel Club – England’s earliest chow studbook entries donated by Chris Clucas
A couple of weeks ago, Chris Clucas in the U.K. sent me multiple emails filled with scanned pages from The Kennel Club stud book and register dating back to 1902. This is such a valuable addition to the ChowTales archive for reference and research….you have no idea how grateful I am to have access to these historic […]
1950 Travelers Insurance advertisement with chow
I (In the private collection of Sandra Miller) What an unusual ad this is……the 1940s-1950’s public image of our chow breed, was certainly not the best, according to the many articles and newspaper reports of dog bites I keep running into from these decades. Chows had quite the reputation as being unpredictable and aggressive, due […]
1905 The Tatler- France – The chows Countess de Cholet including Ch. Shylock
Here is another rare find I purchased from England that came from an antique weekly publication in London of social and drama news called ” The Tatler” . The Countess de Cholet was one of the leading early chowists in France and from what I can gather, was during this period a “collector” […]
1896 Book- An American Dog Abroad and the Foreign Dogs he Met – by Frank Pope Humphrey
My trail of research on the Princess of Wales and her chows, lead me to this charming book written in 1896 from the point of view of a traveling pug dog named “Tony”. The dog tells of his travels with his master to visit the dogs and pets of Royalty throughout England and beyond. […]
1895 ARTIST Ernest M. Jessop- silverpoint etchings of 2 chows owned by the Princess of Wales
Every time I unearth one of these elusive “oldest of the old” puzzle pieces in our British chow history I feel as though the lottery has been won. I purchased this single page from THE SKETCH magazine (England) to get a better look at this article and of course the 2 photos depicting Chows […]
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