DH dogs
 

I realize normal DH engraving had a setter on one side and a pointer on the other . However has anyone seen a DH that had a setter on both sides or a DH that had a pointer on both sides ?

I haven't, but you would be most apt to see that on the earliest DH's that had three dogs, one of which was engraved on the floor plate.





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What I meant was same breed on right and left . I would assume you could have asked for that or would that only have happened by mistake ?

I’ve got a couple from 1889 I don’t remmember whether they had a dog on the floor plate or not :whistle:

2 setters would definitely be more valuable than 2 pointers.. :corn:

the pointer will hang in there with any setter....charlie

Charlie, no setter man would agree to that. Lol

My three dog dh is setter left pointer right setter bottom

Oooh. Now we're getting political. German Shorthair, the dog of the people!

Volkshund ?






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Close, but even bigger. Think Omni-Dog. My dogs think big!

How wide-ranging is the kind of “bird” that motivates the confirmed setter-man?

Here is Burton L. Spiller, in MORE GROUSE FEATHERS, Derrydale Press, 1938:

“…if I owned a thoroughbred setter…I had a mental picture of the only dog that would satisfy me, a silky-haired, snow-white specimen of such ethereal beauty that ladies, especially if they were young and good-looking, would stop and gasp in admiration at the sheer beauty of us both.”

Spiller was the “poet laureate of the grouse hunter” but it appears obvious he was quite the dreamer as well.





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German Shorthair +1

Were Labs ever pictured on a Parker?

Sure we had a couple Trojans at the shop that a less then knowledgeable retired Army captain had done and then when he sold them he lost his a.s.s .

Hmmm.Ugh. How about factory guns?
Worst example I've seen on a gun was a gold inlaid fat Jack Russell terrier on a 28 gauge M12