Circa early 1920’s. This is an exciting find of a Stud Card depicting the famous Chow Ch Yang Fu King. These cards were once a popular form of advertising, handed out at shows and given to owners of prospective females to woo them to the virtues of the stud dog. (pre internet dog courting) Can […]
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 […]
CIRCA 1914 -CHOW MASCOTS OF THE ROYAL NAVY WW1
CIRCA 1914 – AN OFFICER IN FIGHTING KIT HOLDING HIS PET DOG, A CHOW CHOW, ON BOARD THE HMS OAK © IWM (Q 18067) Courtesy the Imperial War Museum….these three stunning photos of navy men with their chow mascots on board ship during WW1. I have a number of photos from this era of “wartime chows” that […]
ANTIQUE CHOW POSTCARD COLLECTION – donated to the archives by Mary Counihan
It took some time, but I finally have all but a few of the 50 antique postcards that were graciously donated by Mary Counihan, scanned, labeled and archived. Most are undated with no postage, so that is another project for a rainy week….researching postcard backs to date them more precisely. Most of the cards in […]
Rare advertisements gifted to the ChowTales archive by Layla Loveless. Thank you!!!
CLICK ADS TO SEE LARGER…..CLICK KENNEL LINKS TO READ MORE Chow History has a great friend in Layla Loveless and I am forever grateful for this unexpected gift to the archives of 5 very rare, original kennel advertisements that she won at the 2017 CCCI Auction. This first ad from Dogdom Monthly publication , Circa […]
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