History of the Color of labrador puppies for sale
Ancestral chocolate and butterscotch-yellow colours (sometimes called “liver” or “golden”) were noted in the original St. John’s hunting s for sale as early as 1807, when the Canton shipwrecked carrying a number of St. John’s for the Earl of Malmesbury. Two puppies for sale were later found, one black and one chocolate, evidence that chocolate had been a colour in the original St. John’s labrador puppies for sale.6 Yellow and chocolate pups, and occasional black and tan or brindling,1011would occasionally reappear (although often culled), until finally gaining acceptance in the cases of chocolate and yellow or being mostly bred out of the breed in the cases of black-and-tan and brindled, although until the 20th century black was the preferred colour.
The first recognised yellow lab was Ben of Hyde, born 1899, and chocolate lab puppies for sale became more established in the 1930s.
Ben of Hyde (b.1899), the first recognised yellow Labrador. Note the darker butterscotch shade of yellow typical of that time.Yellow (and related shades)
In the early years of the breed through to the mid-20th century, Labradors of a shade we would now call “yellow” were in fact a dark, almost butterscotch, colour (visible in early yellow lab photographs). The shade was known as “Golden” until required to be changed by the UK Kennel Club, on the grounds that “Gold” was not actually a colour. Over the 20th century a preference for far lighter shades of yellow through to cream prevailed, until today most yellow labrador puppies for sale are of this shade.
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