BCD House Party 2020 Show & Tell 3 DSC07569
The theme for the Show & Tell was 'Village & Rural Life'.
The quarterly magazine was brought over by a visiting BCD member from the USA. It is open at a report of the 2014 Puzzle Parlay in Stirbridge, Mass., which I believe Grandpa TJ attended and also took part in the Pagey Elliott Puzzle Exchange. You can read about it here:
www.puzzleparley.org/puzzleparley13.html
She also said that Association of Games & Puzzles Int. had opened a website with free access to lots of information.
www.gamesandpuzzles.org/index.php
www.gamesandpuzzles.org/index.php/pubications/online-agpi...
Our American friend had been concerned that they 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 (mud? tar?).
The lovely jigsaw at the front is from the 1930s, a whimsy-cut by James Browning of U-Nit. These are plywood, with a thin red cedar veneer. 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.
On the left are two Wentworth jigsaws from paintings by Malcolm Root, with memories for Tom Tyler, who helped to choose a lot of these images when he was a Wentworth consultant. At the back, 'Battle of Britain Harvest' with an example of blue 'Bunny Money'. As two spitfires return to base to refuel overhead, the war to keep the people fed plays out below. A Land Army girl is loading onto a Ford lorry with an orange Fordson tractor in the foreground. Tom recalled that these tractors were quickly repainted in any earth tones that could be found, because farmers spent too long lying under their machines when passing enemy planes would strafe them. The larger jigsaw (500pc) shows the Coronation Scot passing through a cutting on its way to Glasgow watched by a shepherd with dogs.
www.iwm.org.uk/history/what-was-the-womens-land-army
spellerweb.net/rhindex/UKRH/OtherRailways/CorScot.html
BCD House Party 2020 Show & Tell 3 DSC07569
The theme for the Show & Tell was 'Village & Rural Life'.
The quarterly magazine was brought over by a visiting BCD member from the USA. It is open at a report of the 2014 Puzzle Parlay in Stirbridge, Mass., which I believe Grandpa TJ attended and also took part in the Pagey Elliott Puzzle Exchange. You can read about it here:
www.puzzleparley.org/puzzleparley13.html
She also said that Association of Games & Puzzles Int. had opened a website with free access to lots of information.
www.gamesandpuzzles.org/index.php
www.gamesandpuzzles.org/index.php/pubications/online-agpi...
Our American friend had been concerned that they 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 (mud? tar?).
The lovely jigsaw at the front is from the 1930s, a whimsy-cut by James Browning of U-Nit. These are plywood, with a thin red cedar veneer. 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.
On the left are two Wentworth jigsaws from paintings by Malcolm Root, with memories for Tom Tyler, who helped to choose a lot of these images when he was a Wentworth consultant. At the back, 'Battle of Britain Harvest' with an example of blue 'Bunny Money'. As two spitfires return to base to refuel overhead, the war to keep the people fed plays out below. A Land Army girl is loading onto a Ford lorry with an orange Fordson tractor in the foreground. Tom recalled that these tractors were quickly repainted in any earth tones that could be found, because farmers spent too long lying under their machines when passing enemy planes would strafe them. The larger jigsaw (500pc) shows the Coronation Scot passing through a cutting on its way to Glasgow watched by a shepherd with dogs.
www.iwm.org.uk/history/what-was-the-womens-land-army
spellerweb.net/rhindex/UKRH/OtherRailways/CorScot.html