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The postcard is one of those types that's difficult to reproduce because the dark areas are highly reflective. Above is the photographed version. Here is the scanned version.
What I really want to know is whether the guy holding her bridle is Benjamin W. Strattan himself. Compare this image. I'd say there is a resemblance, especially in that distinctive jaw line. And the two men have highly similar tastes in fashion, with those striped coats and brimmed caps.
This postcard is undated, but the "Artura" stamp box on the verso is of a style that (according to some casual internet research) was used from 1908 to 1924.
B.W. Strattan died in 1921. The man in this postcard image looks somewhat younger than the B.W. in the image I posted earlier and linked to above, but he still looks well into or past middle age — you can see signs of aging about his neck and jaw. In 1908 B.W. would have been about 73 years old.
Short answer: I don't know.
(The original postcard can now be seen at the Hobart museum.)
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