Old wooden Jigsaw Puzzles

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Jigsaws and dissected puzzles

A selection- of- mostly- British- puzzles.
Unless -otherwise- stated they are made
of wood, complete, and in original boxes.

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Recent additions

Photo link	Size/Cut	Date	Title and comment	Price
	appx 920	c1908	The House of Lords	click here
	appx 430	c1910	The Thin Red Line	click here
-	1000 +	c1950/60	Victory Gold Box - various	click here
-	appx 600	c1950	Old English Inns - circular	click here
	200 - 800	c1930	Tanglewood Jigsaw Club	click here
MACKINTOSH FABRIC	-	-	-	click here

Victory

Following in the tradition of earlier jigsaw puzzles and in order to enhance the challenge, Victoty Gold Box hand-cut wooden puzzles are supplied without any guide pictures. If it will not spoil the fun for you, photos of the completed puzzles can be view by clicking on the boxes.

Date	Pieces	Figurals	Title and comment	Price
	100	no	Brownies	£29
	200	yes	Mevagissey Harbour (click box if you wish to reveal image)	£28
	200	yes	Jews House Polperro (click box if you wish to reveal image)	P.O.A.
	250	no	The Collector	X
	300	yes	The New Member (click box if you wish to reveal image)	P.O.A.
	300	yes	The Market Place (click box if you wish to reveal image)	£36
	300	yes	Wild Strawberries (Cries of London) (click box if you wish to reveal image)	X
	400	yes	Pack Horse Bridge (click box if you wish to reveal image)	X
	400	yes	The Market Inn (Period coaching inn) (click box if you wish to reveal image)	£46
	500	yes	Unloading At Newlyn (click box if you wish to reveal image)	£59
	500	yes	Three Cliffs Bay (Gower) (click box if you wish to reveal image)	£59
	500	yes	A Frugal Meal	X
	600	yes Artistic series	Oberhofen Castle (click box if you wish to reveal image)	£59
	600	yes	The Capital Building (click box if you wish to reveal image)	£59
	600	yes	One Of The Family (click box if you wish to reveal image)	P.O.A.
	800	yes	Settling The Boundary	X
	800	yes	A Tall Story	X
	1000	yes Super-cut (no straight edges!)	-	X
	1000	yes Artistic series	Invercauld Bridge	X
	1000	yes	Autumn Adventure	X
	1000	yes	Yosemite Valley	X
	1000	yes Artistic series	Loch Garry	X
	1000	yes Artistic series	The Minuet (click box if you wish to reveal image)	P.O.A.
	1500	yes	A Waterfall	X

Chad Valley

Puzzles by this maker do not contain figural pieces.

Distributor	Date	Pieces	Title and comment	Price
Chad Valley Gold Box	c1950	500	Bournemouth. A Super Cut puzzle - gool feel extra thick wood with whimsical shapes including a map of England and Wales, wavy edges, and colour line cutting.	£65
Chad Valley	c1930	300	The Royal Family. Book box.	P.O.A.
Chad Valley	c1935	300	H M The King and T H R Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose. Book box.	P.O.A.
Saga (not CV)	c1939	250	A Portrait of HM Queen Elizabeth (the present Queen's mother)	P.O.A.
Chad Valley for Hoover	c1930	200	The Hoover Factory Perivale. Book box.	X
Chad Valley	c1930	200	Battle of Trafalgar. Book box (n.b. poor photo with camera flash on cellophane covering).	£35
Chad Valley for Cunard	1930's	375	Cunard Liner Aquitania	X
Chad Valley for Great Western Railway	c1928	150 (2 missing)	Cornish Riviera Express	£29
Chad Valley for Great Western Railway	c1928	150 (1 missing)	Caerphilly Castle in plain brown box	X
Chad Valley for Great Western Railway	c1928	200 (1 small edge piece missing)	The Streamline Way. Book box.	£85
Chad Valley for Great Western Railway	c1928	200 (3 missing)	Henley Bridge. Book box.	£26
Chad Valley for Great Western Railway	c1928	400 (2 missing)	Torbay Express. Blue book box with thumbnail picture missing.	£39
Chad Valley for Great Western Railway	c1928	375 (2 missing)	Vikings Landing At St. Ives. Blue book box scuffed.	£36
Chad Valley for Illustrated Newspapers	c1930	235	A Present from Caesar (artist: F. Mantania).	X

Other makers (in alpabetical order)

Make	Date	Pieces	Figurals	Title and comment	Price
Academy	c1930	200. Solid wood.	N	A Sussex Garden (Icklesham)	X
Academy	c1930	253 (35cm x 25cm)	N	Thirlstone (after A R Quinton)	X
Challenge	c1910	250 (1 missing) non-interlocking 17" x 10"	-	A Calm Sea by J. Maurice Hosking (hand written title on printed label). Click box to view.	X
Delta	c1930	300 (1 missing nib)	N	Caller Herring	£29
Hall-Court	c1930	150	N	Sport and Travel Series No.3 - The Sports Train. (Winter Sports).	£35
Holtzapffel	c1920	200	N	Sputon Cliffs. Partially interlocking.	X
Jones	c1930	300	N	South African (Springbok) Series - In an Old Dutch Garden at the Cape (Night scene with phantom figures)	-
Jones	c1930	300	N	South African Series - Jacaranda Time at Pretoria	X
Jones	c1930	150	N	South African Series - The Landing of Johann Van Riebeek at the Cape in 1652. (n.b. the reflection on cellophane covering is not a blemish on the puzzle itself.)	£29
Philips	c1930s	.	N	Dominions of Canada with Newfoundland. Play & Learn dissected map puzzle in Deco style paper covered box. Size 12.5 by 9.5 inches.	X
Simpson Marshall	c1930	200. 16" x12"	N	Mail Coach	£25
Toys To Teach	c1920	220	.	The Sunlit Mere. Handwritten label. Partially interlocking.	X
Tuck's Jazz	c1920	150	N	Keep Fit	£29
Tuck's Jazz	c1920	150 (1 damaged)	N	The Jazz Band	£29
Tuck's Zag Zaw	c1910	520 (5 missing)	.	In Disgrace. Box lid has inch wide selotape scar down centre.	X
	c1910	750 (1 missing)	Y	Henley Regatta.	X
Tuck's Crazy Cut	c1920	500 (2 knobs replaced)	N	Against the Purple Cliffs the Breakers Roar. Handwritten label. Box a little worn.	X
Vera (France)	c1930's	36 large size	.	Disney: Les Trois Petits Cochons or Three Little Pigs (Box dimensions 10" x 10")	£39
Waddingtons	c1950's	appx 500	N	Old English Inns. Lovely unusual circular wooden puzzle in plain box. (20.5" diameter) Featuring The Spaniards Inn, Hampstead; The Prospect of Whitby, Wapping; The Kings Head, Chigwell; The Trip to Jerusalem, Nottingham; The Feathers, Ludlow; The Angel, Grantham; The Tonhil Inn, highest in England, Yorkshire Pennines.	P.O.A. NEW
Zeitvertreib (Pastime)	c1910	241	N	Kuhe auf der Weide. German. Unusual angular pieces. Handwritten details.	X
ZigZag	c1920	250	Y	A Busy Day. Solid mahogany with some figural shapes. Handwritten details, box lid reinforced with sellotape along edge.	X
Zig-Zag (Intalok)	1930's	200	.	The Launching of the Queen Mary. (The sides are missing from the box lid.)	P.O.A.
Zig-Zag (Intalok)	c1930	150	N	The Fire Brigade. Label shows puzzle plus "The Fire Brigade in attendance at a riverside fire. The latest type fire-float with main branch action, together with two fighting top water tower tenders, and numerous fire fighting appliances in use." (NB. Previous owner's name written neatly on label.)	£45

Specials

TANGLEWOOD JIGSAW CLUB
The following puzzles are contained in cotton bags stamped TANGLEWOOD JIGSAW CLUB with an address for a Mrs P Barclay in Rutland. Probably Mrs Barclay ran the club and/or was the cutter. The bags are also marked with the puzzle title, code number, size, and number of pieces. Every piece has been painstakingly stamped on the back with the puzzle's code number so if a piece went astray one could tell instantly which puzzle it belonged to! These date from c1930.

Click to enlarge	Title	Pieces/Size	Comments	Price
	On It's Own	214 (14 x 9 inches)	unusual interlocking cut with a few push fit (click bag if you want to see the image)	£35 NEW
	Tealby, Lincs.	275 (15 x 10 inches) 2 pieces missing	interlocking	P.O.A. NEW
	Sandy Bay	445 (19 x 15 inches)	unusual interlocking cut with a few push fit (click bag if you want to see the image)	£55 NEW
	Coblence Fortress	622 (20 x 16 inches)	all push fit nice puzzle, extremely difficult (click bag if you want to see the image)	£95 NEW

The following puzzles from the private collection of the former owner of the British Jigsaw Puzzle Library would have been kept in plain cardboard library boxes (at present they are cellophane mounted on boards but can be dismantled and boxed). Cut by A. Dinn of Spondon, circa 1920, for the British Jigsaw Puzzle Library, they involve both interlocking and non-interlocking (push-fit) styles, and often colour line cutting. Click to view completed puzzle.

Click to enlarge	Title	Pieces/Size	Comments	Price
-	-	-	-	X

The following puzzles, also from the private collection of the former owner of the British Jigsaw Puzzle Library, do not have boxes, and some makers are unknown. Click to view enlarged.

Click to enlarge	Title	Pieces/Size	Comments	Price
	The Lords in 1908	appx. 920 81 x 54 cms some damage, please see enlargement	Provenance: Christies 16 June 1988 from the private collection of the former owner of the British Jigsaw Puzzle Library.	£350 NEW
	The Thin Red Line after Robert Gibb	appx. 430 66 x 33 cms minor damage, please see enlargement	Provenance: Christies 16 June 1988 from the private collection of the former owner of the British Jigsaw Puzzle Library.	£275 NEW
	Street in a Country Town	appx. 300 27 x 35 cms	fine cut	X
	Indian Squaw	appx. 200 (1 small missing edge near top left) 30 x 23 cms	probably an Academy puzzle (c1930) judging by the cut and dark solid wood	£24
	Moonlit Waters	appx. 500 39 x 49	interlocking with various animal shapes, probably Pastime Puzzle.	X
	Flowers For Granny	appx. 300 30 x 40	Interlocking. After G Sheridan Knowles. Brooklyn.	X
	Jananese Scene	242 34 x 23	strange squiggly shapes	X

The following puzzles do not have original boxes, and the makers are unknown. Click to view enlarged.

Title	Date	Pieces	Comments	Price
	The Old Hall	225 36 x 24 cms	complete, partially interlocking push fit puzzle	£45
	Llandudno	appx. 100	complete, early photographic puzzle, c1920, comes in old Gold Flake tobacco tin	£19
	Now We Are Alright	appx. 140	complete, push fit, c1918, interesting First World War propaganda theme	P.O.A.
	girl with kittens	appx. 400 (9 missing)	difficult push fit puzzle on solid wood, c1900. a lovely puzzle save for the condition!	X
	Serenade after Brunelleschi	appx. 300 31 x 23 cms	partially interlocking	£39
	A Dutch flower/tulip market scene	appx. 350 interlocking pieces with some figurals (eg animal shapes), appx. 30 x 41 cms	complete, some minor flaking on the surface of a few sky pieces, no box	£22
	Robinson Crusoe and Friday(?) in a snowscape, an illustration by Louis Bailly.	An interesting mix of appx. 150 curved and angular partially interlocking pieces, appx. 19 x 29 cms	complete, no box	£19
	A typical Middle Eastern street scene	appx. 200 interlocking pieces, appx. 23 x 33 cms	complete, no box	£29
	Floral Glories	appx. 300 large non-interlocking push-fit pieces, appx. 50 x 40 cms	complete, no box	£35
Master of Hounds	c1910	500 appx. (1 missing) non-interlocking (mainly two shape variations), difficult. Very bright chromolithograph	N	X