Unknown setterowner

[ursula wilby]

This photo has hung on the wall in my kitchen for many years. Found at a fleamarket and taken in Sweden. He obviously loved his dogs enough to have a special photo taken with them. I find it interesting that the leads used are so very thin, rather like show-leads. Enjoy two setters from the past...he is now back in his frame and once again looking down at me on a daily basis. :-)

PS I am certain he would have been delighted to find himself (and particually his dogs) here on the site!

[Susan Stone]

...and now you check the swedish registry for setters around that time - and bingo, we know it all! (Don't tell me there was no such registry....)

[Anna Kazimierowicz]

I have just added to my site few photos, especially for you, Ursula, thanks for very interesting story with unknown setterowner.
I cant add this photos to blog post, because in this place computer shows only a lot of letters and other signs instead photos.
So, be so kind and look there.
Greetings
Anna

[Nicole Wilson]

Wow, Anna! Those photos are certainly very interesting :-)) Thank you for posting them! I wonder whether it was considered posh to be posing with a setter in those times.

[Henk ten Klooster]

Intresting time for Irish setters those days.

Princess Wilhelmina of the Netherlands had Irish & Gordon setter kennels near her palace 't Loo in Apeldoorn, her favorite was the Irish setter Swell. In type Swell -probably a Garryowen-son- is like this one. Pictures are still exposed in her childhood room in the palace-museum. Swell had more white, like a Palmerston blazes.

Some working Danish still show this type.

Around that time dogmagazines were very international covering most dogevents all over Europe - including UK and Ireland. Garryowen travelled more than the average top trialling or showing owner does now, most by train.

If you hunt his backgrounds it might reveal some history Ursula. But I guess you rather guess because the process behind guessing might be more creative. So let's say he found a home at last:-))))

[Anna Kazimierowicz]

What a story:)))

[ursula wilby]

There is a book published about the photographer Andersson and I have managed to find one on the internet. It will be interesting to see if I learn any more. I will let you know!
And yes I have given a home to another gentleman quite like this one. He also hangs in my kitchen. Once found in a fleamarket in the south of London in the late 1960's. He has followed me for all that time.
Unfortunatly he is dog-less, but quite handsome never the less!

Nicest men to have around the kitchen...the sepia-coloured ones...

[Carmel Murphy]

Very interesting Ursula!! Should I also look out for sepia coloured gentlemen?

[Dee Rance]

Me too Ursula :-)))))))))

[ursula wilby]

Sepia men

Advantages: No fuss, no dirty socks and no complaints about food, dogs or whatever else they can think of
Disadvantages: Will not lift a finger under any circumstances, no shoulder to cry on and will show absolutly NO sympathy in ANY situation

[Kristina Brannlund Westin]

Gudis vad häftigt Ursula!

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