His Master's Voice, c. 1930s. Carved Panel with Nipper and Gramophone and Hanging Chain fibers 3 1/4" x 5 1/2"

3 1/4" x 5 1/2" and really lovely

perhaps abandoned before finished

I purchased a number of heads of various sorts this week

Framed: 12 1/4" x 10" x 1 1/4"

The surface bears what appears to be the original stain/paint

His Master's Voice, c. 1930s. Carved Panel with Nipper and Gramophone and Hanging Chain fibers 3 1/4" x 5 1/2"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