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Oil on canvas of the Rough Collie "Ch. Rufford Ormonde" by Herbert St John Jones (English, 1872-1939) Oil on canvas of the Rough Collie "Ch. Rufford Ormonde" standing upon a red patterned carpet within an oak panelled interior by Herbert St John Jones (English, 1872-1939)
Signed and dated 'Herbert H Jones 1906'
To the reverse inscribed: "High Life original sketch by H. H. Jones of Nantwich Rufford Ormonde (CSB 2336) bred by Mr Stretch Ormskirk 1906"
Ch. Rufford Ormonde won his first C.C at The Kennel Club Show of 1892, when he also won, what is now the British Collie Club Challenge Trophy for, the first time. He won this trophy further, twice in 1894, after his name change. This makes him the only dog to have won this trophy in different names, Ormskirk Ormonde and Rufford Ormonde.
Ch. Rufford Ormonde was sold to Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, of New York. At which time Morgan was paying record prices for champion dogs from England.
Famously two of the American bankers prize collies Sefton Hero and Ch. Rufford Ormonde, saved a young woman from drowning in July, 1897. Robert K. Armstrong, the Superintendent of Mr. Morgan's kennels, with his wife, baby, and friend were upset in their boat on the Hudson, and thrown into the river. The friend could not swim, and the noble dogs plunged to her rescue. Ch. Rufford Ormonde took hold of one arm with his teeth, and Sefton Hero placed himself so that the woman rested squarely on his back.
Working to-gether they dragged her safely to shore.
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