His Master's Voice, c. 1930s. Carved Panel with Nipper and Gramophone and Hanging Chain fibers making me think the sailor

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

and still could very much be used for printing

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 making me think the sailorThis 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