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<p>[QUOTE="Ladybranch, post: 185581, member: 44"]Good for you Mansons for coming up with the dog's name! As others have said this was a cabinet that once held a Victor Victrola. The Victor Talking Machine Co. was founded in 1901. In 1929 RCA purchased the Victor Co. As your cabinet wasn't made for a crank on the side to wind up the phonograph dates it to probably the 1930s at the earliest to c1950 as Brad said. Once electric motors became profitable to install in phonographs, the cranks quickly disappeared. Today we think of the dog being the logo for RCA, but in reality I believe it started with Victor Victrola.</p><p><a href="http://www.victor-victrola.com/History%20of%20the%20Victor%20Phonograph.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.victor-victrola.com/History%20of%20the%20Victor%20Phonograph.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.victor-victrola.com/History of the Victor Phonograph.htm</a></p><p><a href="http://www.victor-victrola.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.victor-victrola.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.victor-victrola.com/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>--- Susan[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ladybranch, post: 185581, member: 44"]Good for you Mansons for coming up with the dog's name! As others have said this was a cabinet that once held a Victor Victrola. The Victor Talking Machine Co. was founded in 1901. In 1929 RCA purchased the Victor Co. As your cabinet wasn't made for a crank on the side to wind up the phonograph dates it to probably the 1930s at the earliest to c1950 as Brad said. Once electric motors became profitable to install in phonographs, the cranks quickly disappeared. Today we think of the dog being the logo for RCA, but in reality I believe it started with Victor Victrola. [URL='http://www.victor-victrola.com/History%20of%20the%20Victor%20Phonograph.htm']http://www.victor-victrola.com/History of the Victor Phonograph.htm[/URL] [URL]http://www.victor-victrola.com/[/URL] --- Susan[/QUOTE]
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