Oak HMV Gramophone with Large Green Horn

• Registered Numbers - Between 1842 and 1883, a diamond- shaped mark was used to identify items as British-made, which classified the item according to the material from which it was manufactured, as well as the date of registration. This system was discontinued in 1884 when a numbering system was introduced.
  
  Design registration is for "what and item looks like", and is not a patent ("how something works") or trade mark ("what it is called").
  
  The registered number is usually on an under-surface of an object (on the base of ceramics) and oftern shown as "Rd. No. 99999", sometimes surrounded by a rectangular box.
  
  The table below lists the year, and the first registered number for that year:
  
  1884 1
  
  1885 18,993
  
  1886 39,547
  
  1887 61,207
  
  1888 87,266
  
  1889 111,664
  
  1890 140,481
  
  1891 160,613
  
  1892 183,259
  
  1893 203,348
  
  1894 223,861
  
  1895 244,726
  
  1896 266,237
  
  1897 288,848
  
  1898 309,956
  
  1899 328,527
  
  1900 349,120
  
  1901 367,628
  
  1902 380,979
  
  1903 401,944
  
  1904 422,489
  
  1905 428,004
  
  1906 469,160
  
  1907 486,464
  
  1908 516,375
  
  1909 533,561
  
  1910 546,084
  
  1911 561,570
  
  1912 585,707
  
  1913 608,541
  
  1914 627,887
  
  1915 642,613
  
  1916 651,079
  
  1917 655,001
  
  1918 662,576
  
  1919 665,728
  
  1920 664,869
  
  1921 676,491
  
  1922 685,412
  
  1923 691,571
  
  1924 695,944
  
  1925 705,943
  
  1926 716,386
  
  1927 723,430
  
  1928 725,899
  
  1929 740,459
  
  1930 741,336
  
  1931 757,945
  
  1932 767,110
• His Masters Voice - "His Master's Voice", abbreviated HMV is a trademark in the music business, the image coming from a painting of the same name by English artist Francis Barraud. The American rights to the picture were purchased about 1899 by the Victor Talking Machine Company founded by the inventor of the gramophone, Emile Berliner after the painting had been modified to show the dog named "Nipper" listening to one of Victor Talking Machine Company's gramophones.
  
  Further capitalising on the logo, an additional trademark, "Little Nipper" was later registered and used for children's records and radios.
  
  Ownership of the HMV trademark was transferred through a number of companies in the music business during the 20th century including RCA (Radio Corporation of America) and EMI.
  
  Barraud, the artist died in 1924 and the painting is now in the public domain, although the trademark is still valid.
• Oak - Native to Europe and England, oak has been used for joinery, furniture and building since the beginning of the medieval civilisation. It is a pale yellow in colour when freshly cut and darkens with age to a mid brown colour.
  
  Oak as a furniture timber was superceded by walnut in the 17th century, and in the 18th century by mahogany,
  
  Semi-fossilised bog oak is black in colour, and is found in peat bogs where the trees have fallen and been preserved from decay by the bog. It is used for jewellery and small carved trinkets.
  
  Pollard oak is taken from an oak that has been regularly pollarded, that is the upper branches have been removed at the top of the trunk, result that new branches would appear, and over time the top would become ball-like. . When harvested and sawn, the timber displays a continuous surface of knotty circles. The timber was scarce and expensive and was used in more expensive pieces of furniture in the Regency and Victorian periods.

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• gramophones - HMV 26