by Sprake:
by Godden:
This title embraces several landscape views of trains. The first version was originally issued in 1879, at the York Exhibition, under the title STEPHENSON'S "TRIUMPH"; but by mid-August 1879 the same view of the LORD HOWE engine with two coaches was issued under the new title THE PRESENT TIME. This title appears on printed back-labels from 4 onwards.
A fine, large mounting of THE PRESENT TIME occurs with a two-colour title, in the manner of Coventry framer T. Carter. This extremely rare large version makes a pair with THE GOOD OLD DAYS [st270 on this site.]. This rare version with two-colour title can also occur in a smaller mount of standard size.
Other comments:
As can be seen, the first letter of each word of the printed title has the upper half in green, with the lower half in red.
