[78-L] Barraud "Nipper" painting at auction in Maine

[Kristjan Saag]

I wrote:
>> If the disc on the turntable is a Columbia it might not be an original.
>> Kristjan
Mike Biel wrote:
>> Good point!  I looked at the turntable earlier, and now am looking again.  The record on the turntable is not the full size of the turntable as it would be unless it was an early 5-inch toy record. The surface outside the record is tan.  There seems to be a reddish label on the record.  AND last but not least -- the word Victor is lettered
>> across the machine under the brass brake bracket.  Would Barrard have modified the painting for the copies given to an American store??
>>      
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It's definitely a different painting: the dog's angle is different. But 
there's another version of this "American picture" on

http://inventors.about.com/od/gstartinventions/ss/gramophone_2.htm

with Victor written on the side of the machine and everything, but here 
the disc is bigger and the reflections clearer. I don't know where the 
picture comes from, but it looks more like an original document than the 
auction painting.
On the other hand: here's a "British Nipper" in front of a gramophone 
with a small disc!

http://www.streamingoldies.com/content-images/rays/Nipper7.jpg

And here's what appears to be the American original: with dog the 
British Way, Large disc, Victor written on the side of the machine - and 
even reflected on the coffin!

http://images.google.se/imgres?imgurl=http://farbror-sid.se/image/e/081118-hmv-nipper.jpg&imgrefurl=http://farbror-sid.se/home/%3Fp%3D1549&usg=__3LT2AxrF6kTbqfEaDqCjvB9KIxg=&h=266&w=400&sz=23&hl=en&start=62&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=u4j4PzyATlEwZM:&tbnh=82&tbnw=124&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dnipper%2Bvictor%26start%3D60%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26ndsp%3D20%26tbs%3Disch:1
Kristjan