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who viewed them as embodying everything they were trying to breed out of those two breeds.
In the mid 1960s, Jane Barletta of New Jersey switched from the increasingly extreme
Siamese to breeding the more moderate Tonkinese. At about the same time, Margaret Conroy
in Canada bred a female Burmese to a Seal point Siamese as she was unable to find a suitable
Burmese stud in her locality. Her tan-bodies cats bred true for 5 generations and were dubbed
Tonkanese (with an "a"). The original cats were Sable (US: Natural Mink), but crosses
between Blue Burmese and Blue Point Siamese introduced Blue Tonkinese. Later on, the
other Siamese/Burmese colours were also bred together to expand the Tonkinese colour
range: red, lilac (US: platinum), chocolate (US: champagne) and cinnamon (US: honey).
Though the Tonkinese breed in the USA has been recreated by crossing the Siamese and the
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