BCD House Party 2020 Show & Tell 10 DSC07584
The theme for the Show & Tell was 'Village & Rural Life'.
These two jigsaws were brought by a BCD member from the USA, on her first visit to us. She had been concerned that she didn't have any British village scenes, but we were all thrilled to see her and of course her American jigsaws.
The Picture Puzzle box at the back from Lewis Taylor is from the 1909 era. The painting, In Disgrace by English artist Stanley Berkeley, shows a family of collies whose 'black sheep' has returned filthy with a kill (I think).
The lovely jigsaw at the front is from the 1930s, a whimsy-cut by James Browning of Unit. These are plywood, with a thin red cedar veneer. This example has a number of letter and number figurals with a semi-interlocking matrix. The cutting line is not zig-zaggy like the Milton Bradley Premier Library jigsaw I own. I've only ever come across these in Bob Armstrong's Fall Sale listings, but we don't see many USA jigsaws other than Parker Pastime's over here in the UK.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Berkeley
Stanley Berkeley (1855–1909) was an English painter of animal, sporting and historical subjects, especially military scenes. Born in London, he exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy, the Grafton Galleries, the New Watercolour Society, and elsewhere from 1878 until 1902, and many of his pictures were retrospective military scenes of the English Civil War and the Battle of Waterloo, such as For God and King: An Incident in the Civil War, and Gordons and Greys to the front: An Incident at Waterloo. Berkeley also depicted contemporary events and several were published as photogravures by Henry Graves including The Victory of Candahar, Charge of the Gordon Highlanders at Dargai, Atbara, and Omdurman. Some of his most popular pictures were representations of dramatic events in the Boer War. He also provided illustrations for various books, magazines and newspapers, and produced many works in water-color and monochrome. In 1884, he was elected a member of the Royal Society of Painters and Etchers for his illustration work. Berkeley married the genre and landscape painter, Edith Berkeley and they lived at Surbiton Hill, in Surrey, where he died on 24 April 1909.
BCD House Party 2020 Show & Tell 10 DSC07584
The theme for the Show & Tell was 'Village & Rural Life'.
These two jigsaws were brought by a BCD member from the USA, on her first visit to us. She had been concerned that she didn't have any British village scenes, but we were all thrilled to see her and of course her American jigsaws.
The Picture Puzzle box at the back from Lewis Taylor is from the 1909 era. The painting, In Disgrace by English artist Stanley Berkeley, shows a family of collies whose 'black sheep' has returned filthy with a kill (I think).
The lovely jigsaw at the front is from the 1930s, a whimsy-cut by James Browning of Unit. These are plywood, with a thin red cedar veneer. This example has a number of letter and number figurals with a semi-interlocking matrix. The cutting line is not zig-zaggy like the Milton Bradley Premier Library jigsaw I own. I've only ever come across these in Bob Armstrong's Fall Sale listings, but we don't see many USA jigsaws other than Parker Pastime's over here in the UK.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Berkeley
Stanley Berkeley (1855–1909) was an English painter of animal, sporting and historical subjects, especially military scenes. Born in London, he exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy, the Grafton Galleries, the New Watercolour Society, and elsewhere from 1878 until 1902, and many of his pictures were retrospective military scenes of the English Civil War and the Battle of Waterloo, such as For God and King: An Incident in the Civil War, and Gordons and Greys to the front: An Incident at Waterloo. Berkeley also depicted contemporary events and several were published as photogravures by Henry Graves including The Victory of Candahar, Charge of the Gordon Highlanders at Dargai, Atbara, and Omdurman. Some of his most popular pictures were representations of dramatic events in the Boer War. He also provided illustrations for various books, magazines and newspapers, and produced many works in water-color and monochrome. In 1884, he was elected a member of the Royal Society of Painters and Etchers for his illustration work. Berkeley married the genre and landscape painter, Edith Berkeley and they lived at Surbiton Hill, in Surrey, where he died on 24 April 1909.