So here we actually have the perfect card to end this week with, for it shows a direct comparison between “The Conventional and the Real Gallop”. It also tells us that “Before the introduction of the camera, artists … portrayed a galloping horse in a conventional manner with all four legs outspread as shown in picture 1.”
However there is one very strange omission, and that is any reference to Edweard Muybridge. In fact it is worse than that because it seems to forget he even existed, and only say “To-day, instantaneous photography analyses and records for us every passing phase of the animal`s action which the eye cannot perceive.” But what of the past?
This set gets its first description in our original Ogden`s reference book (RB.15) issued in 1949. It does not have a very long text, only :
114. 25 MARVELS OF MOTION. Fronts printed by letterpress in colour. Backs in grey, with descriptive text. Home issue, 1928-9.
Mind you the World Tobacco Issues Index is even shorter, just : “MARVELS OF MOTION. Sm. Nd. (25)