[Phono-L] Errata/A Capital Joke

[john robles]

Thanks Allen, I will do so.
John

--- On Mon, 5/25/09, AllenAmet at aol.com <AllenAmet at aol.com> wrote:


From: AllenAmet at aol.com <AllenAmet at aol.com>
Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Errata/A Capital Joke
To: phono-l at oldcrank.org
Date: Monday, May 25, 2009, 2:14 PM



In a message dated 5/25/2009 1:16:00 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
john9ten at pacbell.net writes:

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?


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Hi,

   The earliest known graphic of these two men laughing seems to  date from 
1884. At that time, there was no talking machine of course.

But the title, A Capital Joke, goes back to ca 1880 (a musical  operetta). 
And yes, the Graphophone replaced one of the men, probably late  1890s. 
Adaptive advertising was the rule of the day - even the famous painting  of the 
Old Couple (Edison) replaced an earlier machine - a Puck!

  If you can send me a scan of the statuette, I'll look some  more.

Allen
_www.phonobooks.com_ (http://www.phonobooks.com) 

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