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

[DanKj]

I don't know if this is one of his, but it's something that John Rogers 
could have produced.   It would be interesting to know if Columbia paid for 
the use of the image !


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "john robles" <john9ten at pacbell.net>
To: <phono-l at oldcrank.org>
Sent: Monday, May 25, 2009 12:28 PM
Subject: [Phono-L] A Fascinating and Historic Phono related Find


> 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
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