CROWN E BLUE SWORD, rare solid blue neuter, born September 9, 2006. Sired by Crown E Moonlighter (Ch.Crown E White Heat X Ch.Stedam's Dressed in Blue) bred to his mother, CH.STEDAM'S DRESSED IN BLUE. $600. Blue Sword has promise to win in premiership,since he conforms as well to the CFA American Shorthair standard as his mother does, with such distinctly American Shorthair eye and muzzle shape, body balance, angulation and topline that no judge could confuse him with a blue of any other Shorthaired breed, including British Shorthair, Chartreux, Russian Blue and Korat. Blue Sword's pedigree includes the first solid blue American Shorthair to earn his CFA grand championship, GC, RW Chanti Basin Street Blues, D.M.  Pattern becomes less visible in winter, when contrast is reduced. Notice that the correctly "hard" American Shorthair coat texture displays a shine that is not found on British Shorthair blues, and fits the body as closely as the coat of ancestor, Ballochmyle Brother Bump.

The PawPads website has copied photos from Frances Simpson's "Book of the Cat" section on early blue Shorthairs, a section including the original ancestors of modern British Shorthairs, with their fat-cheeked, heavy jowled faces(see Sherdley Michael, Sherdley Alexis, Sherdley Sacha I & Sherdley Sacha II for examples), the snake-shaped head of the Russian Blue (see Bayard as an early example) and the "Maltese" or "blue American Shorthair" distinguished by a square muzzle, assymetrical eye shape, well-angulated shoulders and hindlegs for enhanced jumping ability (see Eng.CH. Ballochmyle Brother Bump, on that page, as an example).. The color artwork showing a blue Shorthair in profile looks incredibly similar to "CROWN E BLUE SWORD" . see his photos above. The photographs and paintings from Frances Simpson's "Book of the Cat" much more closely resemble the modern American Shorthair than the modern British Shorthair. Look around the PawPads website at the early Persian Longhairs, that had very long noses, to see that early Shorthairs had much shorter, prettier faces than early Longhairs.