is This the RCA Victor Dog ?

[jeff of pa]

Found by Mike from Berks ;

He's about 3 inches high

says VICTOR on front.

On the bottom it says H.A.REIF MFG. CO. PHILA

If it is, I would Imagine it was Originally looking onto a
Phonograph.

Any Idea on age ?

 

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[hollowpointred]

sure looks like it to me. RCA used to manufacture phonographs in Philadelphia.

 

[dg39]

probably 1920's...Original RCA dogs like that are sought after by collectors. Is it cast zink or pot metal as it is called? There was probably a phonograph that went with it. Small size of course..Very nice!!
DG

 

[trk5capt]

JEFF, His Name Was Nipper, " He Heard His Masters Voice" Was The Slogan. trk5capt...

 

[mojjax]

All I can say is- Wow ! nice find . Yup looks like the Victor dog . beautiful !

mojjax

 

[MiddenMonster]

If it is, I would Imagine it was Originally looking onto a
Phonograph.

As long as those splotches on your image are corrosion and not spots on the dog, it looks like the RCA dog. The RCA dog had a white body and spots on its head.

 

[jeff of pa]

I wonder if they Changed his name to "Nipper" in later years.
Being it says "Victor"

 

[MiddenMonster]

I wonder if they Changed his name to "Nipper" in later years.
Being it says "Victor"

Here's a Yahoo blurb on the origin of the little hound puppy...

http://ask.yahoo.com/20030616.html
we did a little digging and learned the original Nipper was a mutt from Bristol, England. Born in 1884, he was part Bull Terrier and part Fox Terrier. Francis Barraud, one of Nipper's human friends, painted a picture of the canine listening to a phonograph, ear cocked attentively. Barraud shopped the painting around and eventually sold it to the Gramophone Company of London (after painting in the company's disc gramophone in place of the cylinder version originally depicted).

The painting, named "His Master's Voice," graced the walls of the Gramophone Company and became their trademark. Later, Emile Berliner, inventor of the disc gramophone, gained the rights to use it in the United States and Canada, and the image became the trademark of the Victor Talking Machine Company, and eventually, RCA.

In the 1991, Nipper's junior companion, Chipper, a Jack Russell Terrier, joined the family.

 

[Michelle]

He's a beauty...nice

 

[techdiver]

Found item here while researching to sell on ebay. Here's a few photos of mine.

 

[bigfoot1]

ya gotta keep that find...just too cool

 

[nhbenz]

As Mojjax mentioned, it's more correctly the Victor dog, rather than the RCA dog. RCA acquired Victor in 1929 and with it the rights to their dog logo.
It appears to have RCA listed After the Victor, where usually I would expect it to say "RCA Victor" which makes me wonder if it was made shortly after the 1929 aquistision, before the corporation/ division was officially named?