A Saint Bernard Dog in the Snow from Switzerland

"Koko"
Le Saint-Bernard Des Neiges

(I believe the translation is: The Saint Bernard of snow.)

The sender writes:
We are having a great time.  The snow in Austria was out of this world - but here in Zermatt, there isn't any so we leave here tomorrow morning for Davos for the rest of the week.

(Zermatt and Davos are both in Switzerland.)

This postcard was postmarked from Switzerland in 1973.

St. Bernard Dog in Paris

Bisous de Paris-Plage
Bons Baisers De Paris
La tour Eiffel (1887-1889)
(With Kisses from Paris)
(The Eiffel Tower)
2010

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If I were to thing of a dog on the beach in Paris, I would think of a French Poodle, not a St. Bernard! 

Dogs Playing Poker, A Friend in Need

A Friend In Need
(dog in the front passing an ace to the next dog  :)
2010

The Coolidge Collection

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Dogs Playing Poker refers collectively to a series of sixteen oil paintings by C. M. Coolidge, commissioned in 1903 by Brown & Bigelow to advertise cigars. All the paintings in the series feature dogs dressing and acting like people, but the nine in which dogs are seated around a card table have become derisively well-known in the United States as examples of mainly working-class taste in home decoration.

The titles in the "Dogs Playing Poker" series proper are:

A Bold Bluff
A Friend in Need
His Station and Four Aces
Pinched with Four Aces
Poker Sympathy
Post Mortem
Sitting up with a Sick Friend
Stranger in Camp
Waterloo

The St. Bernard in the paintings Waterloo and A Bold Bluff was owned by the Fifth Avenue florist Theodore Lang, who counted Coolidge among his friends. The dog's name was Captain.

On February 15, 2005, the originals of A Bold Bluff and Waterloo were auctioned as a pair to an undisclosed buyer for US $590,400.  The previous top price for a Coolidge was $74,000.

St. Bernards in Oregon

Timberline Lodge Mascots
Mt. Hood, Oregon

Saint Bernards resting in the blue alpine lupine on the south side slope of Mt. Hood.

Photo: Molly Kohnstamm
2010

Dogs Playing Poker

Dog-Gone-It!
Life would be a Great Game if it wasn't for the Cheaters.