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

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howard is not on this board but i forwarded this to him
 
 
In a message dated 5/25/2009 12:31:38 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
john9ten at pacbell.net writes:

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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