The Spring issue of Jigsaw Pieces featured on its front page the top-selling Maids of Kent “Alice – The Mock Turtle’s Story” puzzle from the auction held at the Lingfield meeting in November. More about the meeting and the auction was to be found inside, including a detailed list of all the puzzles auctioned with the prices they fetched. See the post below for more details more on the meeting.
There was still room for a few more articles, though. The biggest of these, contributed by Kirsten and titled “Password “Eagles-palette”, discussed the less well known presence of Raphael Tuck & Sons in Berlin in the early part of the last century. They operated there from 1904 until liquidation in 1915, manufacturing and selling puzzles with slightly different cuts from those normally associated with Tuck. From 1915 until 1935 another publishing company took over their premises but continued to produce similar products – art prints and puzzles – using a very closely associated logo.
John wrote about his childhood in the coal mining area of the Midlands and the beginnings of his collections of Good Companion, Mammoth and Lumar puzzles, including a wants list of those he still needs to complete them. Brian described his eventually successful attack on a 4,000 piece Christmas present, Anne posed a query about Bournemouth cutter Desmond Everdale-Hawks and Pete urged any jigsaw sellers to help find new club members by including BCD flyers with the puzzles they send out to their buyers.