[the OlLine Rebel]

She is the original “Beauty of the Breed”, c. 1911. I give you, -the Great-, Flora Berkemeyer.

[Salamander]

Would that they still looked that way.

I have seen utterly magnificent “old type” GSDs trotting around junkyards and hillbilly back yards and thought “That dog could save the breed”.

Sadly, they wouldn't last 10 seconds in the “show ring”.

She truly is possessed of a great and lost beauty.