His Master's Voice, c. 1930s. Carved Panel with Nipper and Gramophone and Hanging Chain wintery delivering all of the pleasures

delivering all of the pleasures of rotary dialing

It will stand on its own vertically like a tower and equally good laid on its side

and with this little fox gazing up at her seeming a bit afraid of what she might do

and perfect as a pedestal for all sorts of things

graphic decoration but can rarely afford

His Master's Voice, c. 1930s. Carved Panel with Nipper and Gramophone and Hanging Chain wintery delivering all of the pleasuresThis sweet thing, with "His Masters Voice" spelled out in perfectly imperfect pyrographed block lettering below silhouettes of Nipper and gramophone, taught me a bit of RCA history: the company's logo derived from a 1898 painting by Liverpool based artist Francis Barraud showing his terrier Nipper listening to a phonograph; a year later he replaced the phonograph with a gramophone in order to sell the painting to the Berliner Gramophone company. The