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Circa 1903 – Hildewell Tao Mu- Article , photos and artwork

SOURCE: HAMSHERE GALLERY  – HILDEWELL TAO MU BY ARTIST MONICA GRAY The article below is by Nic Waters, talented writer for Dog World UK.. This outstanding magazine unfortunately closed for business recently, and  I am so glad I saved this article for reference and felt it would disappear altogether if I didn’t archive it here […]

1937 TRAUDL STARK – Austrian born child actress with a chow

Thank you so much to ChowTales reader Jeff Austin, for letting me know about this lovely photo up for auction of Traudl Stark.  I know I have this somewhere in my collection and could not find it to save me, so I went ahead and purchased this original very large 5×7 original  cigarette photo card […]

The Kennel Club – England’s earliest chow studbook entries donated by Chris Clucas

A couple of weeks ago, Chris Clucas in the U.K. sent me multiple emails filled with scanned pages from The Kennel Club stud book and register dating back to 1902. This is such a valuable addition to the ChowTales archive for reference and research….you have no idea how grateful I am to have access to these historic […]

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” […]

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