BCD Tintern Show & Tell 8 DSC06711
A long sweep of this end of the show & tell table at Tintern.
From top to bottom:
The dark woodland lake scene is a 200pc Parker Pastime jigsaw called Sunshine on the Lake, in front of its white box. The jigsaw has been roughly quartered with spidery cuts, before being cut into the usual figurals and pieces. The small brown cardboard box with blue edged typed label belongs to the small jigsaw next to the orange Salmon Academy box. It is a painting by Yeend King, as usual using his wife as a model, with the title Waiting for the Ferry. The cutter is unknown but the label states it is from the 'Wessex Series' - the cutting is the very unusual pointy longarm style with interrupted edges that I call seaweed cut.
Behind the orange box is a colourful modern hand-cut by Chris Carrick (Almost Abstract) which was made up at the House Party. The painting by Josephine Wall is of the Water Sprite Ondine. The Salmon Academy 200pc jigsaw Haven shows a river or coastal village with small boats. It is cut in a lazy strip cut but still has the globular knobs.
To the right are stacked the boxes of an Optimago Gold Box (Picnic on the Riverbank by a French Impressionist painter), a small Tuck Popular in the wooden-patterned cardboard box and the box of the stunning Apollo Vera jigsaw, Van Gogh's Bridge at Arles. The little yellow box houses a promotional jigsaw for Watney's Brewery. It features 'The Finish of the Boat Race' on the Thames, with the Mortlake Brewery of Watney Combe & Reid.
On the right of the photo you can see a colourful 1000pc Vera Art Moderne showing fauvist painting Barges on the Seine by Maurice de Vlaminck. Unfortunately I failed to get a larger photo of the jigsaw. Next to it are the guide picture and jigsaw of an antique puzzle showing Elsenburg on the River Wecht (?), a merchant's house near Amsterdam. The engraving is prior to 1750 and the guide photo has been mended with a piece of newspaper from 1887. The puzzle comes in an oak sliding box.
Below that is a jigsaw of the event that initiated the tradition of the water parade of the Lord Mayor's Show in London. The event is most famously recorded in a painting by Canaletto in the 18thC, but ceased in 1856, when many of the barges were sold to Oxford University colleges and some still survive. The jigsaw was made by F Green, 6 Tennis Court, Millhope, Holborn. Disappearing of the right edge is what the owner believes to be an unrecognised 150pc AVN Jones South Africa Series jigsaw. A hand written title 'Tennis at Rondebush' (??) has been added to the rear of the box, whose label lists titles 1-12. Could this be the enigmatic 28 or 34 - or a prototype that didn't make the series?
Another stunning Vera Arte Moderne jigsaw shows the Bridge over the Elbe by Kokolschka is next. It has been damaged by an owner who chose to mark the lower border pieces with crosses.
In the foreground is a Liberty jigsaw showing a modern painting of African animals - On the Ngare Ndare River by Alex Beard. A tiny 40pc Tuck Popular in the wood-patterned cardboard box sits on top of it. It shows a meeting between Puritan settlers and native American Indians on the edge of the Hudson River and measures c7x5.5in. (Below the jigsaw and out of sight are two 250pc Wentworth jigsaws showing Lincoln Cathedral from Brayford Pool and a train crossing Victoria Falls Bridge.)
BCD Tintern Show & Tell 8 DSC06711
A long sweep of this end of the show & tell table at Tintern.
From top to bottom:
The dark woodland lake scene is a 200pc Parker Pastime jigsaw called Sunshine on the Lake, in front of its white box. The jigsaw has been roughly quartered with spidery cuts, before being cut into the usual figurals and pieces. The small brown cardboard box with blue edged typed label belongs to the small jigsaw next to the orange Salmon Academy box. It is a painting by Yeend King, as usual using his wife as a model, with the title Waiting for the Ferry. The cutter is unknown but the label states it is from the 'Wessex Series' - the cutting is the very unusual pointy longarm style with interrupted edges that I call seaweed cut.
Behind the orange box is a colourful modern hand-cut by Chris Carrick (Almost Abstract) which was made up at the House Party. The painting by Josephine Wall is of the Water Sprite Ondine. The Salmon Academy 200pc jigsaw Haven shows a river or coastal village with small boats. It is cut in a lazy strip cut but still has the globular knobs.
To the right are stacked the boxes of an Optimago Gold Box (Picnic on the Riverbank by a French Impressionist painter), a small Tuck Popular in the wooden-patterned cardboard box and the box of the stunning Apollo Vera jigsaw, Van Gogh's Bridge at Arles. The little yellow box houses a promotional jigsaw for Watney's Brewery. It features 'The Finish of the Boat Race' on the Thames, with the Mortlake Brewery of Watney Combe & Reid.
On the right of the photo you can see a colourful 1000pc Vera Art Moderne showing fauvist painting Barges on the Seine by Maurice de Vlaminck. Unfortunately I failed to get a larger photo of the jigsaw. Next to it are the guide picture and jigsaw of an antique puzzle showing Elsenburg on the River Wecht (?), a merchant's house near Amsterdam. The engraving is prior to 1750 and the guide photo has been mended with a piece of newspaper from 1887. The puzzle comes in an oak sliding box.
Below that is a jigsaw of the event that initiated the tradition of the water parade of the Lord Mayor's Show in London. The event is most famously recorded in a painting by Canaletto in the 18thC, but ceased in 1856, when many of the barges were sold to Oxford University colleges and some still survive. The jigsaw was made by F Green, 6 Tennis Court, Millhope, Holborn. Disappearing of the right edge is what the owner believes to be an unrecognised 150pc AVN Jones South Africa Series jigsaw. A hand written title 'Tennis at Rondebush' (??) has been added to the rear of the box, whose label lists titles 1-12. Could this be the enigmatic 28 or 34 - or a prototype that didn't make the series?
Another stunning Vera Arte Moderne jigsaw shows the Bridge over the Elbe by Kokolschka is next. It has been damaged by an owner who chose to mark the lower border pieces with crosses.
In the foreground is a Liberty jigsaw showing a modern painting of African animals - On the Ngare Ndare River by Alex Beard. A tiny 40pc Tuck Popular in the wood-patterned cardboard box sits on top of it. It shows a meeting between Puritan settlers and native American Indians on the edge of the Hudson River and measures c7x5.5in. (Below the jigsaw and out of sight are two 250pc Wentworth jigsaws showing Lincoln Cathedral from Brayford Pool and a train crossing Victoria Falls Bridge.)