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COLLECTION – Circa 1924 – Photo collection from England – Possibly Mrs David Wagstaff of Ledgeland Kennels – USA

I am pinching myself!!!!  What an incredible discovery!!!!   8 photos (11 total) originating from England of a chow breeder/exhibitor …… and to top it off I have 3 more photos from a different source that picture this same woman showing the light colored chow you see in the group shot below. Those will in […]

BREED PIONEER- 1920’s – EUGENE BYFIELD – Chino Kennels, Grasmere Farms

In the early 1920’s Eugene Byfield established his Chino Kennels (Grasmere Farms)  near Chicago in Barrington Illinois .  At one point this breeding/show kennel of exquisite chows housed  nearly 100 dogs.  It was a great loss to the breed in 1930 when Mr. Byfield was killed in a polo game .  In addition to his […]

BREED PIONEER -1911-1933 Claire Knapp Penney Dixon and her Clairedale Chows

In November of 2013 when ChowTales Archive was in its infancy, I ran across an outstanding website that covered everything you could possibly want to know about one of the leading fanciers in early American Chow history,  Claire Knapp Penney of Clairedale Chows.  I immediately wrote to the site owner Ken Spooner of Spooner Central […]

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