Gramophone Company Trademark Gramophone

If this shape looks familiar, it should. The Science Museum dates this English-made Gramophone Company machine to 1897 and says the model inspired the company's trademark. Francis Barraud first painted his dog Nipper listening to a cylinder phonograph; in 1899 the Gramophone Company asked him to paint in a Berliner disc gramophone instead, bought the picture and turned it into His Master's Voice. Note the leather elbow joining the soundbox to the black horn, and the long brace carrying the horn's weight.