His Master's Voice, c. 1930s. Carved Panel with Nipper and Gramophone and Hanging Chain minauture portrait 1 7/8" x 1 3/4"

1 7/8" x 1 3/4" and in great condition

each with quite an elaborate hair do (especially the young woman at right)

Loaded with personality and very charming

I like the connection between the figure mining for fish hidden below the surface of the ice and the box itself as a place where treasures are concealed and kept safe

His Master's Voice, c. 1930s. Carved Panel with Nipper and Gramophone and Hanging Chain minauture portrait 1 7/8" x 1 3/4"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