Complete Set of 25 Ogden's Optical Illusion Cards, 1920s pewter box most likely due to the

most likely due to the association of the color red with good luck

not a chip on them

) The surface decoration is what makes it special--a bright white slip animated with these great inky blue

and now these fantastic bone ones

2 1/4" tall x 1 3/4" wide and deep the figure himself measures 1 1/2" tall

Complete Set of 25 Ogden's Optical Illusion Cards, 1920s pewter box most likely due to theThis is a complete set of British Ogden Cigarettes "Optical Illusion" cards, included as freebies inside cigarette packs, and which someone very diligently collected to have all 25 that were issued. I think the graphics on these are just fantastic, and might argue they they are the best looking set Ogden's ever produced, and they produced a lot, beginning in the late 19th century. On the back of each card is an explanation of each illusion, or in some