Need Someone Who Understands German (Warning: large photo!) - Page 1

And no, Babelfish isn't going to be any help this time!

I have a really old picture with a German caption on it from the first edition of Max's book. The caption is very hard to read, and I need someone, preferrably a native speaker of German, to take a look at it, and tell me what they think it says.

Here it is:



I forget the source of the pictiure. I did not get it directly from Max's book, and whoever posted it captioned it "Early German Shepherd dogs". If these dogs truly ARE ancestors of our current dogs, NO WONDER we get Panda shepherds popping up now and then!

 What page is this on? I have my copy right here but don't have time to look at every page. The caption above is too blurry to make out except the first word....German.

I think the caption reads "Deutche Stockhaarige Schäferhunde" which means German stock hair (coated) shepherd dogs. By the way, there are many great photos in this book and many don't look a thing like the dogs of today. It provides prospective on where the dogs come from.

My copy is also for sale for a reasonable price.

Okay, I think I just answered my own question. When I posted the picture here, the text became easier to read. It says: Deustsche (something) haarige Schaeferhunde, which translates as (something)haired German Shepherd Dogs.  The word I can't read definitely does not refer to longhaired dogs (lange) so, since the GSD only ever had three coat types, the word must mean either wire-coated or stock coated. I've seen the German word for stock-coated before, and would likely recognize it, so I am guessing these are the now-extinct wirehaired German Shepherds!

And please note, they ARE identified as "Deutsche Schaeferhunde"!  

Edit: Oops, thanks, Hodie!  Yes, you're right, I'm wrong!

Anyone know the German for wirehaired?  I've tried two different translation sites, and can't find an equivalent expression.

is it not Drahthaar?

This is not a picture taken with a camera. It is a painting and there are many painting the misrepresent the subject.RJ

Could the word you are looking for be Stichelhaar ?
which means broken coated, a type of wire coat, there was a Grey and White dog mentioned at one of the first shows in the 1800s

Hodie PM me with your price, I might consider this.

or do you mean

The medium smooth coated German Shepherd Dog