Pen
I have quite a few different Thoths - they vary so in colour and contrast, and I'm always looking for the perfect one.
But having just practice-trimmed a small dull one, I was comparing the others to decide which of the large ones to trim when I noticed something disturbing.
The AG Muller blue box 1996 large edition has been squashed, the proportions altered. It's very obvious if you look at the Fool's face, which is longer in the large AG Muller 1986 edition. At first I wondered which was the version closest to the original paintings, so, looking for circles I compared the Star cards, in which one would expect Lady Harris to have made the planet a decent sphere. It seems clear from this comparison that the 1986 edition is the nearest to spherical and therefore the original. I guess this is logical too, as computer technology might not have allowed this sort of distortion then. Comparison of the width to length ratio of the two different editions confirms the distortion, and OK, it's not much, but I so prefer the original Fool to the new squater one.
How very dare they....!
Pen
But having just practice-trimmed a small dull one, I was comparing the others to decide which of the large ones to trim when I noticed something disturbing.
The AG Muller blue box 1996 large edition has been squashed, the proportions altered. It's very obvious if you look at the Fool's face, which is longer in the large AG Muller 1986 edition. At first I wondered which was the version closest to the original paintings, so, looking for circles I compared the Star cards, in which one would expect Lady Harris to have made the planet a decent sphere. It seems clear from this comparison that the 1986 edition is the nearest to spherical and therefore the original. I guess this is logical too, as computer technology might not have allowed this sort of distortion then. Comparison of the width to length ratio of the two different editions confirms the distortion, and OK, it's not much, but I so prefer the original Fool to the new squater one.
How very dare they....!
Pen