Paul Hamlyn Group Know Your Cities Canberra - box
Make: Paul Hamlyn Group
Serial: -
Title: Canberra
Series: Know Your Cities Series 1 (ABC of City Education)
Pieces: 221 (17 x 13).
Size: (400 x 325mm).
Date: -
Bar Code: -
Origin: -
One of two jigsaws that I acquired recently, both of which arrived assembled inside the box.
There is very little information about these, which I will summarise below:
The box is 400 x 325 x 25 mm, and the completed puzzle (just) fits inside. The pieces are thin card with a bright white backing. No piece count is given, and the grid is irregular, but the edges have 17 pieces on the horizontal and 13 on the verticals so the count is estimated from those.
On each side of the box is the text "Paul Hamlyn Group Product". I remember Hamlyn as a book publisher, producing reference books under that name and the similar Octopus imprint. There are no reference numbers or other unique identifiers beyond the city name and the picture itself.
On one side of the box is the text "ABC of city education {NAME}" and on the top, overlaying the guide picture, is "KNOW YOUR CITIES jigsaw puzzle - series1 {NAME}".
As well as the puzzle, there is a sheet of clear acetate that you can place over the completed picture and various landmarks are highlighted and described. There is no date on the puzzles, and perhaps the only way to know for sure would be for someone familiar with the cities to look at the pictures and determine a timeframe by what is and what is not present.
The text on the acetate for the Canberra puzzle does contain the sentence; "The population of 106,200 is estimated to increase to 250,000 by 1984." An online search gives population figures of 103,000 in 1967 and 113,000 in 1968 (www.macrotrends.net/cities/206175/canberra/population), which may date these puzzles to that time. [In 1984, the population turned out to be 245,000, rising to 252,000 in 1985.]
The Sydney puzzle has a David Jones price ticket of 99c on the box. This would post-date decimalisation in Australia, which was in 1966. Two other cities in the series, Adelaide and Melbourne, are currently on eBay at $45 each. Sydney and Canberra were $2 each from a charity shop.
Bought more jigsaws…
DONE: 577 puzzles (388833 nominal piece count). TO DO: 895 puzzles (1151400 nominal piece count).
Paul Hamlyn Group Know Your Cities Canberra - box
Make: Paul Hamlyn Group
Serial: -
Title: Canberra
Series: Know Your Cities Series 1 (ABC of City Education)
Pieces: 221 (17 x 13).
Size: (400 x 325mm).
Date: -
Bar Code: -
Origin: -
One of two jigsaws that I acquired recently, both of which arrived assembled inside the box.
There is very little information about these, which I will summarise below:
The box is 400 x 325 x 25 mm, and the completed puzzle (just) fits inside. The pieces are thin card with a bright white backing. No piece count is given, and the grid is irregular, but the edges have 17 pieces on the horizontal and 13 on the verticals so the count is estimated from those.
On each side of the box is the text "Paul Hamlyn Group Product". I remember Hamlyn as a book publisher, producing reference books under that name and the similar Octopus imprint. There are no reference numbers or other unique identifiers beyond the city name and the picture itself.
On one side of the box is the text "ABC of city education {NAME}" and on the top, overlaying the guide picture, is "KNOW YOUR CITIES jigsaw puzzle - series1 {NAME}".
As well as the puzzle, there is a sheet of clear acetate that you can place over the completed picture and various landmarks are highlighted and described. There is no date on the puzzles, and perhaps the only way to know for sure would be for someone familiar with the cities to look at the pictures and determine a timeframe by what is and what is not present.
The text on the acetate for the Canberra puzzle does contain the sentence; "The population of 106,200 is estimated to increase to 250,000 by 1984." An online search gives population figures of 103,000 in 1967 and 113,000 in 1968 (www.macrotrends.net/cities/206175/canberra/population), which may date these puzzles to that time. [In 1984, the population turned out to be 245,000, rising to 252,000 in 1985.]
The Sydney puzzle has a David Jones price ticket of 99c on the box. This would post-date decimalisation in Australia, which was in 1966. Two other cities in the series, Adelaide and Melbourne, are currently on eBay at $45 each. Sydney and Canberra were $2 each from a charity shop.
Bought more jigsaws…
DONE: 577 puzzles (388833 nominal piece count). TO DO: 895 puzzles (1151400 nominal piece count).