His Master's Voice, c. 1930s. Carved Panel with Nipper and Gramophone and Hanging Chain minauture portrait plus a diamond pattern at

plus a diamond pattern at the center

or a merchant of some sort

A few spots where the silk has worn through but there's lining underneath

and it slants a bit when viewed from that direction--but it's the age and wear that really makes it

His Master's Voice, c. 1930s. Carved Panel with Nipper and Gramophone and Hanging Chain minauture portrait plus a diamond pattern atThis sweet thing, with "His Masters Voice" spelled out in perfectly imperfect pyrographed block lettering below silhouettes of Nipper and gramophone, taught me a bit of RCA history: the company's logo derived from a 1898 painting by Liverpool based artist Francis Barraud showing his terrier Nipper listening to a phonograph; a year later he replaced the phonograph with a gramophone in order to sell the painting to the Berliner Gramophone company. The