Six Vintage Jigsaws Inns by Frank Moss Bennett Five Examples of Meet at the Manor15
Five Vintage jigsaws featuring Frank Moss Bennett's painting the Meet at the Manor, and a sixth showing another Bennett Inn scene.
Top Left: Vintage 530pc The Departure, 1929 painting by Frank Moss Bennett. The jigsaw is an interlocking grid cut whose original box had been lost when I bought it in Nov 2018.
Top Centre: Lux Michou 900pc The Meet at the Manor (Le rendez-vous de la chasse au Manoir, tableau Anglais.) 15x18.5in. This shows some long cuts with frequent deep knobs, almost semi-continuous cutting, giving pieces that have many rounded lobes, almost like oak leaves. The jigsaw was sold by deamus c May 2014, and you can see it on Jigasaurus:
www.thejigasaurus.com/jigasaurus/v/lux/rendez_vous/
Top Right (2 photos): Salmon Academy 500pc The Meet at the Manor by Frank Moss Bennett. The jigsaw has a piece missing and came in a jazzy geometric patterned box (pink, blue, yellow, brown, black triangles) when it was sold in Aug 2012. It is a horizontal strip cut with swooping horizontal lines with large knobs and smaller knobs on the vertical cross cuts.
Lower Left: Victory Gold Box Artistic 450pc The Meet at the Manor by Frank Moss Bennett. Sold in Aug 2015, this is an interlocking whimsy cut. The blank has been divided by 8 vertical cuts with tightly spaced small knobs and 4-6 figurals have been cut in each strip. The knobs on the horizontal cuts are much larger and vertical lines with tight knobs connect up the whimsies. The effect is quite decorative.
Lower Centre: Delta 450pc The Meet at the Manor. The seller thought the jigsaw dated from the 1930s and the box lid shows a brown label with a family - father smoking a pipe whilst mother supervises two young children doing a jigsaw. It is an interlocking strip cut put up for sale in April 2018.
Lower Right: Rex Vera 800pc Meet at the Manor (Rendez-vous de Chasse au Manoir Tableau Anglais). It was sold in a blue box, with red sticker and labels from Kate Lemoinne & Co, 81 Avenue Victor Hugo, Paris. Like the Lux Michou jigsaw, the maker has kept a white print border. There is an interlocking frame and a slightly chaotic centre cut, with many pieces being vaguely H or Y shaped. This was the first Vera jigsaw I bought back in Feb 2013.
Six Vintage Jigsaws Inns by Frank Moss Bennett Five Examples of Meet at the Manor15
Five Vintage jigsaws featuring Frank Moss Bennett's painting the Meet at the Manor, and a sixth showing another Bennett Inn scene.
Top Left: Vintage 530pc The Departure, 1929 painting by Frank Moss Bennett. The jigsaw is an interlocking grid cut whose original box had been lost when I bought it in Nov 2018.
Top Centre: Lux Michou 900pc The Meet at the Manor (Le rendez-vous de la chasse au Manoir, tableau Anglais.) 15x18.5in. This shows some long cuts with frequent deep knobs, almost semi-continuous cutting, giving pieces that have many rounded lobes, almost like oak leaves. The jigsaw was sold by deamus c May 2014, and you can see it on Jigasaurus:
www.thejigasaurus.com/jigasaurus/v/lux/rendez_vous/
Top Right (2 photos): Salmon Academy 500pc The Meet at the Manor by Frank Moss Bennett. The jigsaw has a piece missing and came in a jazzy geometric patterned box (pink, blue, yellow, brown, black triangles) when it was sold in Aug 2012. It is a horizontal strip cut with swooping horizontal lines with large knobs and smaller knobs on the vertical cross cuts.
Lower Left: Victory Gold Box Artistic 450pc The Meet at the Manor by Frank Moss Bennett. Sold in Aug 2015, this is an interlocking whimsy cut. The blank has been divided by 8 vertical cuts with tightly spaced small knobs and 4-6 figurals have been cut in each strip. The knobs on the horizontal cuts are much larger and vertical lines with tight knobs connect up the whimsies. The effect is quite decorative.
Lower Centre: Delta 450pc The Meet at the Manor. The seller thought the jigsaw dated from the 1930s and the box lid shows a brown label with a family - father smoking a pipe whilst mother supervises two young children doing a jigsaw. It is an interlocking strip cut put up for sale in April 2018.
Lower Right: Rex Vera 800pc Meet at the Manor (Rendez-vous de Chasse au Manoir Tableau Anglais). It was sold in a blue box, with red sticker and labels from Kate Lemoinne & Co, 81 Avenue Victor Hugo, Paris. Like the Lux Michou jigsaw, the maker has kept a white print border. There is an interlocking frame and a slightly chaotic centre cut, with many pieces being vaguely H or Y shaped. This was the first Vera jigsaw I bought back in Feb 2013.