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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.   […]

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