Vintage Ephemera & Collectibles
This vintage advertising trade card features a black and white lithograph of a contorted horse on the front, marked "LITHO IN U.S.A." The reverse acts as both a puzzle solution and a promotional pitch, offering the "answer" to putting riders on horses' backs without cutting or bending, while smoothly transitioning into an advertisement for guaranteed Tung-Sol Tone Flow Tubes to fix radio reception issues like hissing, humming, and fading.
This piece was manufactured as an advertising handout rather than a mailable postcard, featuring a text-only reverse without a stamp box. The card exhibits typical surface aging, minor edge wear, slightly softened corners, and light spotting/toning on the back.
The text on this card references an iconic optical illusion puzzle originally created by Sam Loyd in 1872, famously known as the "Trick Mules." By strategically arranging three separate paper pieces, two seemingly impossible-to-ride animals magically have their riders positioned perfectly on their backs.
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