Two Versions of Lawson Wood Cartoon The Morning After Santas Cold 40th Annive HP 13
Two vintage jigsaws of a Lawson Wood cartoon, labelled as 'The Morning After' or 'Santa's Cold'.
Left: Seen at the 2025 House Party, a small push-fit, jigsaw with some line-cutting. The diagonal cut across the picture is a bit off-putting. Unfortunately I didn't photograph the box or record any other information.
Right: Seen at the Nov 2015 meeting, where one member brought in a pair of lovely small vintage jigsaws to images by Lawson Wood. This one is 'The Morning After' and is cut in an interesting push-fit style. The cut has a tremulous feel, but includes the letters X, V, W/M, N W I.
See Wikipedia for a full biography of Lawson Wood
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawson_Wood
Lawson Wood, sometimes Clarence Lawson Wood, (1878 – 1957), was an English painter, illustrator and designer known for humorous depictions of cavemen and dinosaurs, policemen, and animals, especially a chimpanzee called Gran'pop, whose annuals circulated around the world. Wood was decorated by the French for his gallantry at Vimy Ridge during World War I. He was deeply concerned with animal welfare and was awarded membership in the Royal Zoological Society in 1934. His animal designs were reproduced as wooden toys and he established a sanctuary for aged creatures. In his later years, he was a recluse and died in Devon in 1957.
Two Versions of Lawson Wood Cartoon The Morning After Santas Cold 40th Annive HP 13
Two vintage jigsaws of a Lawson Wood cartoon, labelled as 'The Morning After' or 'Santa's Cold'.
Left: Seen at the 2025 House Party, a small push-fit, jigsaw with some line-cutting. The diagonal cut across the picture is a bit off-putting. Unfortunately I didn't photograph the box or record any other information.
Right: Seen at the Nov 2015 meeting, where one member brought in a pair of lovely small vintage jigsaws to images by Lawson Wood. This one is 'The Morning After' and is cut in an interesting push-fit style. The cut has a tremulous feel, but includes the letters X, V, W/M, N W I.
See Wikipedia for a full biography of Lawson Wood
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawson_Wood
Lawson Wood, sometimes Clarence Lawson Wood, (1878 – 1957), was an English painter, illustrator and designer known for humorous depictions of cavemen and dinosaurs, policemen, and animals, especially a chimpanzee called Gran'pop, whose annuals circulated around the world. Wood was decorated by the French for his gallantry at Vimy Ridge during World War I. He was deeply concerned with animal welfare and was awarded membership in the Royal Zoological Society in 1934. His animal designs were reproduced as wooden toys and he established a sanctuary for aged creatures. In his later years, he was a recluse and died in Devon in 1957.