Archives for 2017

1934 Pedigree for Knif-Li with Steed’s Ching Foo Stud card

CLICK PEDIGREE TO VIEW FULL SIZE This amazing pedigree for female chow Knif-Li was sent to the Chow Chow Club Inc. in 2016 (then mailed to me by Linda Albert) with the attached letter below. Also in the package was a stud card for one of America’s top stud dogs in the package. This is […]

1922 C. Gardner Sullivan – famous screen writer with his Chow “Ching” from Siberia

C. Gardner Sullivan was born on September 18, 1884 in Stillwater, Minnesota, USA as Crawford Gardner Sullivan. He is known for his work on All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), Alibi (1929) and Hell’s Hinges (1916). SOURCE IMBD This 1922 newspaper snippet makes me very curious , what part of “Siberia” this chow […]

1914 E.J. Detmold Chow Illustration – The Book of Baby Dogs

This unusual 93 year old chromolithograph is from the book “FABRE’S BOOK OF BABY DOGS” by E.J. Detmold, published in 1914 by Hodder & Stoughton of New York. E J Detmold (1883-1957) and his twin brother Maurice were prolific Victorian book illustrators. Maurice died in 1908 from inhaling chloroform. Detmold was a well known illustrator […]