Never seen these markings or Colors in a GSD - Page 2

 I don't believe there is shaving there. I think it might be a bit of grey coloring also there. It is a pretty nice dog, conformation wise, although the stacking is not correct. The dog is short and also short and steep in the croup and high at the withers. Nice overall pigment.

I would be willing to bet there IS NOT any white on that dog... simply very bad quality on the photograph. Look at how red the man's hands look, and the purple hue to the tongue, as well as some bright yellow on the pastern.  It appears that someone took the picture in low light, then brightened it up and dropped the contrast - this causes some really strange color changes.

That is a bicolor (though Germany has no such designation and would just call it sbA - blk with brown markings)

You are correct about the picture, had to make it lighter because of the quality. Then did autocontrast, and then the ligther parts look whitish(if that is a word).

If anyone is interested then send me an e-mail(jon.gjerpe@telenet.be) and I will mail a video of the female, there you see better the colors (and the dog working of course).

Her Sire is dark sable, Vasco du Val des Hurles Vent, and her dam is bicolor - Wenka v Castra Regina (Quasy daugther).

I just got pics of a pup that just turned 1 year old, he's Tessie Von Ryan's brother,

he is pretty dark, would he be considered a bi-color? (Never had one of them..)

hard to tell for sure with his feet and legs cut off - bicolors have black "pencil markings" on the top of each toe, and black running on the back of the lower leg from hock to back of paw.  Also no brown around ears - it appears your dog has brown around the ears, and with the amount of brown on the chest, I think he's probably considered a dark black/tan, not bicolor.

molly

dRK bLACK /RED    BEAUTIFUL PUP  NOT A BI

I would consider  those pictured above are a "blanket" blk/tan. The traditional blk/tans have a black saddle. In my opinion this is a bi-color.

http://www.pedigreedatabase.com/gsd/pedigree/504410.html

Denise

that is a very dark "muddied" bicolor.  The dog in the top of this thread is also a bicolor, just with more tan - the black toe-marks and tarheels are the marks of a true bicolor and tell the tale.  The second dog is a dark black/tan, not bicolor, it appears.

molly

Markings of this sort were not uncommon in America-bred dogs during the '50's and '60's. Sometimes, it was referred to as a "reverse mask".

We called this dog "the Malemute":

Can anyone post a few Photos of Goran on here for me, He is very similar to the Dog in the Thread in Colour

I do not have a clue how to post pictures from Photobucket to a website tried many times and failed