AVN Jones South African Series 300pc Range Changes1
Packaging showing the expansion and discontinuation of titles in the AVN Jones South African Series. This was the subject of a talk at the BCD 2019 House Party, which also covered briefly the other AVN Jones ranges including Delta, their contract manufacturing work and the artworks of CE Turner and F Matania. They also did some 300pc double sided jigsaws in the South African range (eg Victoria Falls/Yachting in Table Bay).
Many of the series were from paintings commissioned by the South African High Commission to promote tourism and immigration, others have links to newspapers The Sketch and The illustrated London News.
The top right is the earliest, listing the first twelve in the series with none missing (it belongs to a 300pc no10 Lion's Den jigsaw but has been stamped with no 11 Rand Gold Mine) :
1 A Motoring Paradise: The Marine Drive, Cape Peninsula, S Africa
2 Surf-riding at Muizenberg: The Queen of Cape Coast Watering Places.
3 Picnic Camp on the Buffalo River, East London, South Africa.
4 "The Sport of Kings": the Members' Enclosure Turffontein Racecourse, Johannesburg.
5 Surf Riding.
6 Yachting in Table Bay: In Sight of Table Mountain.
7 The Hub of the British Empire: Feeding the Pigeons in Trafalgar Square.
8 The Landing of Johann Van Riebeek at the Cape in 1652.
9 The Cango Caves: Oudtshoorn
10 The Open Lion's Den at Johannesburg Zoo
( from original paintings by CE Turner)
11 Native Workers at a Rand Gold Mine by JH Amshewits
12 The Victoria Falls on the Zambesi River (after the photograph of Mr William Davis).
The Packaging on the lower right printed in red lists titles up to No 26 - Nos 11, 15, 17 have been discontinued at that point. (The box belongs to a 300pc No8 Landing in 1652).
The full series continues:
13 "The Flower Parade" in Adderley Street, Cape Town.
14 Surf or Smooth Water: The Ocean Beach at Durban
(15 Seeing the Beauties of Durban by Ricksha)
16 The self-chosen grave of Cecil Rhodes.
(17 The Colenso of the Boers War - Then and Now)
18 The Observation Car of a Train-de-Luxe.
19 Angling for big-game fish in South African Waters.
20 Avenues of Jacaranda in full bloom in Pretoria.
21 The Country Club, Johannesburg.
22 The Union Buildings, Pretoria,
23 A New Year's Bathing Party.
24 In a Zulu Kraal. (by WRS Stott)
25 On the Zambesi River.
26 Golf in the "Garden Colony" of South Africa ...
The large image on the left shows the box of a 300pc No12 Victoria Falls. The series continues up to 34 (blank!), with missing nos 9, 10, 11, 14, 15, 17, 18, 28:
27 Bloemfontein Famous Open Air Swimm...
28?
29 Headquarters of South African Turf...
30 In an Old Dutch Garden at the Ca...
31 With the Rand Hunt, Johannesburg...
32 Golfers on the East London L...
33 A New Year's Eve Dance at the .... Johannesburg.
34
Some titles - No 28 In the Drakensberg National Park 400pc, Transkei 400pc - were issued under the Delta range for Selfridges at 22s 6d. The titles were presumably available in both piece counts, but only 300pc versions of no 13 are known to the lecturer.
Brian Price states that prints from Huvanco and AVN Jones were bought by Victory when the other manufacturers ceased trading.
AVN Jones South African Series 300pc Range Changes1
Packaging showing the expansion and discontinuation of titles in the AVN Jones South African Series. This was the subject of a talk at the BCD 2019 House Party, which also covered briefly the other AVN Jones ranges including Delta, their contract manufacturing work and the artworks of CE Turner and F Matania. They also did some 300pc double sided jigsaws in the South African range (eg Victoria Falls/Yachting in Table Bay).
Many of the series were from paintings commissioned by the South African High Commission to promote tourism and immigration, others have links to newspapers The Sketch and The illustrated London News.
The top right is the earliest, listing the first twelve in the series with none missing (it belongs to a 300pc no10 Lion's Den jigsaw but has been stamped with no 11 Rand Gold Mine) :
1 A Motoring Paradise: The Marine Drive, Cape Peninsula, S Africa
2 Surf-riding at Muizenberg: The Queen of Cape Coast Watering Places.
3 Picnic Camp on the Buffalo River, East London, South Africa.
4 "The Sport of Kings": the Members' Enclosure Turffontein Racecourse, Johannesburg.
5 Surf Riding.
6 Yachting in Table Bay: In Sight of Table Mountain.
7 The Hub of the British Empire: Feeding the Pigeons in Trafalgar Square.
8 The Landing of Johann Van Riebeek at the Cape in 1652.
9 The Cango Caves: Oudtshoorn
10 The Open Lion's Den at Johannesburg Zoo
( from original paintings by CE Turner)
11 Native Workers at a Rand Gold Mine by JH Amshewits
12 The Victoria Falls on the Zambesi River (after the photograph of Mr William Davis).
The Packaging on the lower right printed in red lists titles up to No 26 - Nos 11, 15, 17 have been discontinued at that point. (The box belongs to a 300pc No8 Landing in 1652).
The full series continues:
13 "The Flower Parade" in Adderley Street, Cape Town.
14 Surf or Smooth Water: The Ocean Beach at Durban
(15 Seeing the Beauties of Durban by Ricksha)
16 The self-chosen grave of Cecil Rhodes.
(17 The Colenso of the Boers War - Then and Now)
18 The Observation Car of a Train-de-Luxe.
19 Angling for big-game fish in South African Waters.
20 Avenues of Jacaranda in full bloom in Pretoria.
21 The Country Club, Johannesburg.
22 The Union Buildings, Pretoria,
23 A New Year's Bathing Party.
24 In a Zulu Kraal. (by WRS Stott)
25 On the Zambesi River.
26 Golf in the "Garden Colony" of South Africa ...
The large image on the left shows the box of a 300pc No12 Victoria Falls. The series continues up to 34 (blank!), with missing nos 9, 10, 11, 14, 15, 17, 18, 28:
27 Bloemfontein Famous Open Air Swimm...
28?
29 Headquarters of South African Turf...
30 In an Old Dutch Garden at the Ca...
31 With the Rand Hunt, Johannesburg...
32 Golfers on the East London L...
33 A New Year's Eve Dance at the .... Johannesburg.
34
Some titles - No 28 In the Drakensberg National Park 400pc, Transkei 400pc - were issued under the Delta range for Selfridges at 22s 6d. The titles were presumably available in both piece counts, but only 300pc versions of no 13 are known to the lecturer.
Brian Price states that prints from Huvanco and AVN Jones were bought by Victory when the other manufacturers ceased trading.