The Gloster Fancy

History

The Gloster Fancy Canary has its origins set in or around 1925, when two exhibits were sent to the Crystal Palace National Show.

However, many fanciers of the time refused to accept them as anything more than a poor specimen of, the then king of the canary fancy, the Crested.

Fortunately, the persistence of A.W. Smith, at the show, argued defiantly that, although containing none of the massive proportions of the Crested bird, these two exhibits, shown by Mrs Rogerson of Cheltenham, England, did have a delightful quality of their own, and thus, the first hurdle had been beaten.

As with the Crested bird, the Gloster Canary is represented by two different specimens. The plain headed bird, known as the Consort, and the crested bird, known as the Corona.