Where is Nipper?
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Where is Nipper?
I'm wondering where Nipper was gone...
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Re: Where is Nipper?
The record may have been produced for export to a country where the dog was considered to be an unclean animal.
Some HMV portables have a different transfer inside their lids for the same reason.
Some HMV portables have a different transfer inside their lids for the same reason.
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Re: Where is Nipper?
For a period the German Deutsche Grammophon records had this label. I have a bunch of them, all seem to have been sold domestically, all labels are in German and some records have German shop tags. It could be linked to changes in property rights during the WWI, or maybe the Brits took Nipper back home and left the old gramophone for the Germans.
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Re: Where is Nipper?
Perhaps he's just run off to relieve himself, or grab a bite to eat from his dog bowl?
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Re: Where is Nipper?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sLR0vgpeWIgramophoneshane wrote:Perhaps he's just run off to relieve himself, or grab a bite to eat from his dog bowl?
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Re: Where is Nipper?
SQUIRREL! ---------------------->
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Re: Where is Nipper?
It was to do with copyrights actions against the German company from using the original "Nipper" trade mark, so I have been told many years ago. I have several of these records, all from a very short period. I assume that half a trademark was better than nothing!
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Re: Where is Nipper?
I was told that the Gramophone Company and Lindstrom group swapped assets at the beginning of WWI to avoid their assets being confiscated as enemy property , so lindstrom got the German gramophone but without the dog ! i can't find any evidence though , but looking through files I had downloaded was this which is interesting about the two groups
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I also found this relating to the period which again is great
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Re: Where is Nipper?
soundgen wrote:I also found this relating to the period which again is great
all of these can be viewed at this fantastic site , I guess most of you will know this
https://worldradiohistory.com/Talking_Machine_World.htm