VERY RARE RUSSIAN IMAGE-CIRCA 1914 YOUNG RUSSIAN BOY WITH HIS CHOW DOG Considering the written history of Chows in Russia starts at about WWII , this image I purchased from Russia is an incredibly rare find. The back of the photo was dated in pencil November 1914. Could this be a Chinese chow or is it from England? […]
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1897 – Chow Standard bookplates from Races de Chiens
The bookplate scans from this very unusual breed book in multiple languages were graciously donated to the archives by Cathy Clapp. There are some extremely important chows in these images including Ch. T’ien. A bitch considered to be in contention with Chow VIII to be the ideal chow by which the first Chow Standard was […]
WWI Showing Chows and dog breeding during the war years
This attached article written for Best in Show Daily, is absolutely fascinating, telling of the challenges Chow breeders had during WWI showing and breeding their dogs. The article’s author states, “I’d always assumed that pedigree dog breeding and showing had been forbidden during war. So many times I’d read in various breed books of the tight […]
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