Hi All, I'm still in the market for a Bettini Reproducer and Recorder to suit a Spring Motor phonograph. I have the Bettini carriage. I will pay VERY good money for one.
Regards, mario From [email protected] Mon May 25 09:28:54 2009 From: [email protected] (john robles) Date: Mon May 25 09:29:00 2009 Subject: [Phono-L] A Fascinating and Historic Phono related Find Message-ID: <[email protected]> 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 From [email protected] Mon May 25 09:41:26 2009 From: [email protected] (john robles) Date: Mon May 25 09:41:32 2009 Subject: [Phono-L] A Fascinating and Historic Phono related Find Message-ID: <[email protected]> Please note Photobucket made this into a slideshow - you can hit the pause button at the botom left to sto it and look at the pictures longer. --- On Mon, 5/25/09, john robles <[email protected]> wrote: From: john robles <[email protected]> Subject: [Phono-L] A Fascinating and Historic Phono related Find To: [email protected] Date: Monday, May 25, 2009, 9:28 AM 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 _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.oldcrank.org From [email protected] Mon May 25 10:13:04 2009 From: [email protected] (john robles) Date: Mon May 25 10:13:12 2009 Subject: [Phono-L] Errata Message-ID: <[email protected]> De-Lighted was the title of the Graphophone company's graphic with Uncle Sam listening to a Graphophone, not the old man. --- On Mon, 5/25/09, john robles <[email protected]> wrote: From: john robles <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Phono-L] A Fascinating and Historic Phono related Find To: "Antique Phonograph List" <[email protected]> Date: Monday, May 25, 2009, 9:41 AM Please note Photobucket made this into a slideshow - you can hit the pause button at the botom left to sto it and look at the pictures longer. --- On Mon, 5/25/09, john robles <[email protected]> wrote: From: john robles <[email protected]> Subject: [Phono-L] A Fascinating and Historic Phono related Find To: [email protected] Date: Monday, May 25, 2009, 9:28 AM 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 _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.oldcrank.org _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.oldcrank.org From [email protected] Mon May 25 10:24:01 2009 From: [email protected] (Bill Burns) Date: Mon May 25 10:30:49 2009 Subject: [Phono-L] A Fascinating and Historic Phono related Find In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> References: <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> On 5/25/2009 12:28 PM, john robles wrote: > 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. The New-York Historical Society has a copy of this in plaster, and they attribute the original to John Rogers, who did many sculptures of figural groups that were reproduced in plaster and widely sold. They give his dates as 1829 to 1904. http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?uri=full=3100001~!21723!0 A sculpture of that title, 9.5" tall, is listed in an 1889 G. Henneke catalog of "Florentine Statuary", so the sculpture would have pre-dated the Columbia ad and was probably a popular knick-knack of that period. http://www.archive.org/details/henneckesartstud00hennrich -- Bill Burns Long Island NY USA http://ftldesign.com From [email protected] Mon May 25 10:18:14 2009 From: [email protected] (DanKj) Date: Mon May 25 11:18:33 2009 Subject: [Phono-L] A Fascinating and Historic Phono related Find References: <[email protected]> Message-ID: <22c5aa95916e4bc3a14542178353c...@t42> 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" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> 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 > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > http://phono-l.oldcrank.org
