His Master's Voice, c. 1930s. Carved Panel with Nipper and Gramophone and Hanging Chain minauture portrait has great finger joined corners

has great finger joined corners on all sides

A few spots where the silk has worn through but there's lining underneath

and it slants a bit when viewed from that direction--but it's the age and wear that really makes it

maybe forever preserved in the moment just before she actually cracks a smile

His Master's Voice, c. 1930s. Carved Panel with Nipper and Gramophone and Hanging Chain minauture portrait has great finger joined cornersThis 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