England - the early years
England has a very well-documented history of dogs and there is much preserved both through studbooks, newspapers and magazines, which is very interesting and exciting.
England is one of the countries where rhe breedtype translation started relatively early. After 1950, dogs with a new and foreign appearance to the breed dominated the show ring. Let's hope for the breed's sake that it is still possible to find specimens of the breed that look like they did in the past and that some breeders still breed the more classic type of Samoyed dog.
Originally, the dogs that became the registered "Samoyeds" in England, were all white, smoky, black and black & white. The early breeders set the standard as white only and the black was bred out but those stray black hairs still show up as we all have seen. In fact, "village dogs" in Siberia were multicolored.
We need to remember that some people behind the breed had the same or similar names. In discussions and in image analysis around the name Perry in England, the following questions often come up:
Which Miss Perry?
- Dorothy L. Perry - "of Kobe"
- Florence Perry - Of The Glacier?
- Or maybe it's Mrs Dorothy's daughter Irene Ashfield, who bred Samoyeds with the same prefix as her mother.
The Samoyed Association's book "The Samoyed" notes that in 1889 a Samoyed (Samoyede) and a 'Samoyed sled dog' (Samoyede Sledge Dog) were exhibited at London's Alexandra Palace. The dog mentioned as a Samoyed - Charbarowa, female - had a black and white coat according to the book and the 'Samoyed sled dog - Waigatch, male - white and light yellow.
The male Jaego exhibited in 1890, owned by the Prince of Wales, the later King Edward VII, was registered as a 'Samoyed sled dog' and had the colors black, white and tan.
The first pure white dog - Perla, a 'Samoyed sled dog' and also owned by the Prince of Wales - was entered in 1891 at Crufts - then called Cruft's, with a ' between the t and the s.
Sandringham's Kennel a large royal kennel facility.
Many royal houses in Russia and Europe came to pay attention to the Samoyed dog and kept some of the quiet specimens of the breed.
Image archive mixed
Silverfrost Kennel
Ernie Scales: "A few years ago we were introduced to a lady in a care home who had owned and bred Samoyeds in Newcastle upon Tyne, England in the 1940s/1950s. Sadly, Florrie Walters is no longer around to share her memories but in the short period we knew her I did get to copy some photographs of her Champion Aura of the Arctic, one of her other dogs, Prince and the puppies produced under the Silverfrost kennel name (Aura of Silverfrost, owned by Muriel Hopkin was also a UK champion)."