A STRANGE PICTURE

[epigramophone]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/171555821864? ... EBIDX%3AIT

This picture raises a number of questions.

What is the significance of the skull on display?

Why is the picture printed back to front, or is the portable a left hand drive version for the American market ?

Why take such a picture at all?

Suggested captions invited......

[gramophone78]

Obviously the photo was reversed in the making of the post card (quite common). You can clearly see the portables name is also reversed. Try looking at this in a mirror..... .

[Retrograde]

What? Doesn't everyone have a "skull"pture or two in there home?

[downsouth]

Possibly the skull belonged to the previous owner and maybe he never liked to be very far from his favorite machine. Just a thought.

Wes

[2Bdecided]

"Description: Original vintage photo RPPC of a man seated cross-armed next to a record player, a human skull quietly propped on a shelf above them both."

You see, that's the selling point: the quiet skull. You don't want to buy one of those noisy skulls. They sound terrible when they sing along with the gramophone.

[HisMastersVoice]

Here is how the original photo would have looked:

[US PHONO]

was wondering what RPPC meant?

RPPC - A real photo postcard, sometimes referred to by the acronym or initialism RPPC, is a continuous-tone photographic image printed on postcard stock. The term recognizes a distinction between the real photo process and the lithographic or offset printing processes employed in the manufacture of most postcard images.

I think that in my parents day when you had a film re-printed you could have the prints with a postcard style backing to send to your friends. As opposed to the kind of commercial postcards one buys at touristic places.

[Phonofreak]

A RPPC of a man playing his phonograph for a captive audience
Harvey Kravitz

[gramophone78]

The music clearly went to his (or her) head....

[Retrograde]

Maybe he was just bored out of his skull.