[78-L] RCA Dealers' Radio

[Michael Shoshani]

On Wed, 2011-03-16 at 23:57 -0400, DRJAZZ78+AEA-aol.com wrote:
+AD4 Hey Gang,
+AD4  
+AD4     This is a new one on me.......
+AD4  
+AD4 +AF8-http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?VISuperSize+ACY-item+AD0-360352004357+AF8 
+AD4 (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?VISuperSize+ACY-item+AD0-360352004357)  


What a cute vintage 1920s Telechron clock. Too bad someone mickey-moused
it with a 1940s-era Nipper logo.  That's the simplified Nipper that used
to grace the bass drum in bands who were RCA recording artists. Moe
Purtill (Glenn Miller) had that on his bass drum when they were on tour.
So did Sonny Greer (Duke Ellington).

I wonder if someone should tell the seller that a) that version of
Nipper is almost 20 years younger than the clock, and b) RCA did not buy
Victor until 1929, and didn't really use Nipper in RCA advertising for
some time afterward.