Archives for 2017

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” […]