The Maltese of this era, and for several decades to come, looked more coarse and less refined than the Maltese of today. Calvaresi was famous for showing four-dog braces and, at the 1952 Westminster show, Villa Malta won their 18th Best Brace in Show. He started grooming the coats and tying the hair into rudimentary topknots. Calvaresi began to exhibit, Maltese were shown in an unkempt manner as many of the photographs of the time show. CH Electa Brio, Italian CH Electa Laila, and Italian CH Electa Pampi, are in many of the American Maltese pedigrees today. Vincenzo Calvaresi of Villa Malta Kennels, imported dogs from Ireland and Italy. A few very dedicated Maltese breeders worked to bring the breed back from near extinction here in America. While owners of Maltese exhibiting during the latter part of that century are known, the breeders and pedigrees are, unfortunately, lost.įast forward to the 1930s, a distemper outbreak all but eradicated the breed from the US. The AKC Stud Books show that the first Maltese entry in 1888 was two bitches Topsy-an import, and Snips-origin unknown. And in 1894, according to the Westminster website, the famous American journalist, Nellie Bly, entered her Maltese at Westminster some four years after she made a record-breaking trip around the world in 72 days, 6 hours, and 11 minutes, racing the record of Phineas Fogg in Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days.
The Maltese came to America, primarily from Europe, during the latter part of the 1800s, with the first entry of a Maltese at Westminster in 1877. If she whines, you’ll think she is speaking, Issa is more precious than Indian pearls, During the time of the Apostle Paul, the Roman Governor, Publius, owned a Maltese named Issa, and the poet, Martial, wrote this epigram of the dog: Images depicting the dog have been found on ancient Greek and Roman pottery and mentioned in the writings of philosophers of the time.
Called “Ye Ancient Dogge of Malta,” Maltese have adorned the laps of royalty throughout the ages. The breed is generally believed to be from the island of Malta in the Mediterranean Sea, but the exact origin is uncertain. The History of the Maltese – The Maltese dog, once called “The Jewels of Women,” is an ancient breed thought to be over 2,000 years old.
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