Cats
Historical Masked Silver.
Historical Masked Silver.
Some authors have written that the masked silver dates back to 1900, but may have been
referring to shaded silvers, a variety not recognised in Britain at the time and considered to be
a badly bred chinchilla or poor quality smoke. Chinchilla and shaded silver are genetically
tabby cats, smokes are genetical solid colour cats; this difference was not understtod in the
early 1900s. According to Milo Denlinger in 1947, "Masked silvers are a new variety and
very few are bred." Denlinger went on to describe the variety: "The ideal masked silver is a
very beautiful animal; in colouring or, I should say, marking, they should resemble the
Siamese Cat; that is to say, they should have a black mask, or face, black feet, and legs. The
body should be as pale a silver as posible." The eyes were to be deep golden or copper.
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