There was a UK GSD kennel, which was started long before the American one, by Sonica Godden(sadly no longer with us) called Kentwood & her sable patterned dogs all had the same markings & her kennels originated in the 1940s. They are not a "type"of GSD just grey sable patterned dogs with light masks ;-)
Thanks Joedee. Do you think dogs like this still exist then? Also when you say grey sable, the dogs in the pics look very brown?
When you ask what "type" do you only mean the coat, or are their characteristics or whatever else suppost to be different?
I mean the 'look', but these dogs were also meant to be super intelligent, don't know if this has anything to do with their 'type', I suppose it may have.
Of course they are , how about super, super intelligent then However, having never met one I cannot say for sure.
The closest looking i have found was on the flyhart gsd web page under progeny pages first top right pic kinda similar but not really lol