His Master's Voice is an entertainment trademark featuring a dog named Nipper, looking into the horn of a wind-up gramophone. Painted by Francis Barraud in 1898, the image has since become a symbol us
His Master's Voice (1898) by Francis Barraud, amended in 1899 to display a gramophone.
The His Master's Voice trademark has appeared on many record labels, such as this 1928 Whispering Jack Smith release from The Gramophone Company in the United Kingdom.
Following EMI's retirement of the British His Master's Voice record label in 1993, the trademark then became best known in the United Kingdom as the logo for the HMV entertainment retailer.
The Victor Talking Machine Company in the United States used the His Master's Voice trademark from 1901 onwards. The above example is an advertisement from 1921.
The Victor Talking Machine Company was an American recording company and phonograph manufacturer, incorporated in 1901. Victor was an independent enterprise until 1929 when it merged with the Radio Co
His Master's Voice
…in the United States in advertisements for the Consolidated Talking Machine Company, formed by Eldridge R. Johnson and reorganized in 1901 as the Victor Talking Machine Company in Camden, New Jersey. Victor was the American affiliate of British Gramophone Company and initially used the trademark more extensively on its products…
Victor IV gramophone. Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci, Milan.
Enrico Caruso with a customized Victrola given to him as a wedding gift by the Victor Company in 1918