These come from Harry Woodworth Huntington’s My Dog and I (1897). The black dog is Bellingham Bailiff and the rather dark wheaten (?) is Bonny C. from the Newcastle Kennels in Brookline, Massachusetts.
These dogs have much longer legs and less exaggerated heads than the modern show dogs. They don’t have Groundskeeper Willie faces either. I have no concept of what size these dogs are, but they look like a dog that could go into a fox lair or badger sett in wild country of Scotland.
Scottish terriers are derived from the Aberdeen and Highland terriers. The Highland dog looked a bit more like what we would call a cairn terrier, and the Aberdeen terrier appears to be a Scottish terrier with a slightly broken coat.
These are something like the Scottish version of the German teckel.
Didn’t you know? Scottish terriers never worked in the history of the breed.
Very cute dogs though, I prefer these ones over the bearded ones in the show rings. And they certainly do look functional.
Dave,
Where did you get the notion that Scottish Terriers were never worked? The lineage of The Scottish terrier is a bit obscure but it is historical fact that terriers from The Blackmount area were used to kill vermin on farms and badgers and foxes in the hills. Whether they were actually known as Scottish Terriers at that time may be a moot point, perhaps they were still known as Aberdeen Terriers then but they were definite workers.
To be honest, the idea that a group of 16th century Scottish farmers would have had the time, inclination or money to create a “pet” dog is ludicrous.
He was being silly.
There are people who make claims like this.