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Late 1800’s German bookplate with a Chinese Spitz/chow photo

This late 1800s German bookplate shows a wonderful example of a very early Chinese chow. Thank you to Sandra Lindberg (a friend in Chinese Shar-Pei history circles) for the translation and to all those who generously offered to help ! This is such a very interesting article which had no date on the pages but […]

RESTORATION Early 1900s 2 chows and a horse hitching ring

What a random find this was and it seems like there are times these treasures find ME, vs the other way around. First, the listing was not labeled as having chows in it but was titled “bears”. Then once I converted the image to black and white and enlarged it, a wonderful surprise appeared to […]

RESTORATION- 1920s dapper man with his chow

It is a rare find to unearth 1920s photos of men with chows as the breed was considered more or a woman’s dog of the era. But I hit the jackpot on these 2 small snapshots of this Roaring 20’s spiffy gent wearing a “Gatsby” style boaters hat while posing for the Kodak Brownie camera […]

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