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I purchased this picture from Katie Drake (Midwest Phonograph Museum) years ago and it's been sitting in my shop ever since. She believed this fellow to have a phono connection, but she didn't know (or remember) who it was.

I can't make out any of the writing at the bottom - this is the best I can come up with...

SrSn...hj
26.2.157.

Any ideas?

Kurt Nauck
http://www.78rpm.com

Kurt,
Have you tried shining a black light on the signature to clarify it?

Heinrich Hertz .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Hertz

Just for future reference...
Since you scanned that image into a computer (or took a photo of it), all I had to do was save it
as a .Jpg onto my computer (usually my desktop), then open my internet browser to google.com-Images,
and drag and drop that jpeg into the google search bar. It gives you all the matching images and websites that it can find.

try it, it's fun!

Wow, that's brilliant! I never heard of searching for an image in that way - thanks Grumpy.

Looks like Mr. Hertz will be visiting ebay a little later this month.....

Nauck

Good detective work! No wonder he looked familiar. I just could not place fhe face.

Mr Grumpy wrote:Just for future reference...Since you scanned that image into a computer (or took a photo of it), all I had to do was save itas a .Jpg onto my computer (usually my desktop), then open my internet browser to google.com-Images,and drag and drop that jpeg into the google search bar. It gives you all the matching images and websites that it can find.

Sorry to be stupid---I have tried what you suggest but without success. All goes well with sliding the jpeg from my file but I am unable to "drop" it into Google.com-Images search box---it just does not want to know. What am I doing wrong please ? It would be a really useful thing to be able to do.

Another image riddle, I received these in a lot from a west coast phono collector and have not been able to I.D. them. Anyone have any ideas? Are these gentlemen from the "industry"? Any help is appreciated.

John

Ripduf1 wrote:Another image riddle, I received these in a lot from a west coast phono collector and have not been able to I.D. them. Anyone have any ideas? Are these gentlemen from the "industry"? Any help is appreciated.

John

Of course my trick didn't work for any of your images... Sorry

@emgcr

Here's a screenshot of my desktop and how the search works. The main thing is to make sure you
click on the 'Images' option in Google, otherwise it won't let you drop the image.

In Google Images there is camera icon in the search bar which you can see in the screenshot.

Click it and you can either upload an image from your computer or input an URL. No real need to drag and drop anything.