[Phono-L] A Fascinating and Historic Phono related Find

[john robles]

Hi All
Happy Memorial Day. Let's keep a thought for all who gave their lives for our country today. I personally do not support our current war, but I certainly do support those who are fighting and I grieve those who have lost their lives.
Onward - a friend of mine was selling and buying at the Rose Bowl flew market recently, and in his travels around the market he found a statuette that struck him. It is a scene called 'A Capital Joke' and it portrays two men at a table, and one has apparently just finished telling a great joke, and the other man is stretched out in his chair laughing and clutching a napkin to his chest. If you have ever seen the 1890s Columbia ad graphic entited 'De-Lighted', there is the same man laughing in the chair, but across form him is not another man but a Colmbia Graphophone. The man in the ad and the man in the statuette are identical. So is this the source of Coluimbias logo ad? Could it have been drawn by the sculptor of the statuette? Has anyone ever seen this statuette before?
Go to this link and you will see the pics of both, including a side by side comparison that I put together. Let's hear your comments? Is Howard Hazelcorn on this board? Undoubtedly he would know something.
http://s197.photobucket.com/albums/aa39/john9ten/Columbia%20Logo/?albumview=slideshow
John Robles