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‘Nipper’ The Dog

When our son Saleel did PharmD from St. John’s University, he started working inEllie Lilly, Albany sector. One day he told me “Daddy, I want to take you to a place where you will be surprised.” Guess what, being I am a diehard music lover, he took me where world’s largest ‘Nipper’ dog statue of the giant monument of the RCA recordcompany’s mascot fixture in quiet area of Albany. Well, I was stunned and happy to see the historic icon…

Collage of four photos of the large white Nipper dog statue on a rooftop in Albany, one in black and white and three in color against a blue sky.

Sitting atop a storage building in the North End neighborhood of Albany, New York, is a four-ton, 28-foot tall steel and fiberglass statue of Nipper, the canine mascot of the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), the now-defunct consumer electronics behemoth…

As you may know, ‘Nipper’ the iconic dog associated with “RCA “and “His Master’s Voice,” was a real-life dog born in England in 1884. A white terrier mix (likely fox terrier) known for nipping at heels he was adopted by painter Francis Barraud who depicted him listening to a phonograph. The image became a famous audio logo…

1) Nipper (photograph by Barraud, Liverpool and Oxford Street, London)… 2) The original picture with a phonograph as shown in Barraud’s copyright photograph of 1899… 3) The famous Nipper picture as revised for the Gramophone Company…
1) Nipper (photograph by Barraud, Liverpool and Oxford Street, London)… 2) The original picture with a phonograph as shown in Barraud’s copyright photograph of 1899… 3) The famous Nipper picture as revised for the Gramophone Company from an oleograph…

As a passionate collector, I used to have that old antique phonograph with RCA-HMV’s 78rpm records in my collection. I am sure you will like this melodic & nostalgic story…

A smiling man in a red shirt sits on a sofa beside an antique phonograph with a large brass horn.

I am with old antique phonograph…

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