His Master's Voice, c. 1930s. Carved Panel with Nipper and Gramophone and Hanging Chain minauture portrait I like the connection between

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

with helixes and double helixes everywhere

Loaded with personality and very charming

consistent with age and use

has great finger joined corners on all sides

His Master's Voice, c. 1930s. Carved Panel with Nipper and Gramophone and Hanging Chain minauture portrait I like the connection betweenThis 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