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Interesting project making huge Nipper for HMV headquarters:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2pVquFnhCw
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That's very cool! I'm thinking however, that they used a reproduction Nipper as their prototype?

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WOW!!!!

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That's a really nice video! Quite a bunch of creative people who obviously enjoy their work!
Thanks for the link.
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They could have taken it even further and made bronze casting of Nipper.

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JerryVan wrote: Fri Dec 01, 2023 3:26 pm That's very cool! I'm thinking however, that they used a reproduction Nipper as their prototype?
That's exactly what I thought...
"The phonograph† is not of any commercial value."
Thomas Alva Edison - Comment to his assistant, Samuel Insull.

"No one needs a Victrola XX, a Perfected Graphophone Type G, or whatever you call those noisy things."
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