His Master's Voice, c. 1930s. Carved Panel with Nipper and Gramophone and Hanging Chain fibers 2 1/4" diameter x 7/8"

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and 14 paper thin golden brass X's inside

making me think the sailor who made it had sailed to the far east and was recreating the form

I purchased a number of heads of various sorts this week

dates to the early 20th century

His Master's Voice, c. 1930s. Carved Panel with Nipper and Gramophone and Hanging Chain fibers 2 1/4" diameter x 7/8"This 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