King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra we true devotees to the dog sport, housing dozens of popular and rare breeds in their kennels at Sandringham and attending dog shows with their Royal canines. How fortunate I was to recently purchase 2 rare articles from England, each featuring a different chow from their Royal kennels. […]
EARLIEST MENTIONS OF IMPORTED CHOWS FROM CHINA
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This category may contain duplicates of posts found in other categories on this site, but I felt they needed to also be grouped into a special category of their own for ease of research sake. You will find some of the earliest mentions of Chinese chows , chowlike imports from China, and early chow likenesses in art and photos in these posts. Some you may need to scroll around a bit but the references are there (eg stud book entries ...look for Chinese imports)
1885 – The story of Chinese Gordon and Wang the Chow
I get so excited when one archive post leads to another…then another, and yet another…but by the time I get all the photos, text, newspapers etc in front of me, my mind is spinning and I forget what I was searching for in the first place. Granted, this is a GOOD problem and […]
BOOK- 1899 MODERN DOGS by Rawdon B. Lee Non Sporting Edition
This very old documentation of the earliest imports of Chows from China was written by the well-known expert on Foreign dogs of the Day Mr. W.K. Taunton. Taunton owned the lovely “Chinese Puzzle” pictured below which was considered the first “chow” to be shown in England, however, in retrospect she was most likely another one […]
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