His Master's Voice, c. 1930s. Carved Panel with Nipper and Gramophone and Hanging Chain wintery but charming still

but charming still

) and I really like the patterns of the hand-drawn face

The exterior is leather with brass corners

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His Master's Voice, c. 1930s. Carved Panel with Nipper and Gramophone and Hanging Chain wintery but charming stillThis 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