A great picture of Holtzapffel’s wonderful “Chicken Licken” puzzle featured on the front cover of Issue 134 and the magazine duly contained quite a lot of content about the September bird-themed Alton meeting (see previous post for more details of that meeting). Additional related content was provided by the editor who included a nicely illustrated and informative article about the bird puzzles of J.Salmon.
Maria contributed a really interesting couple of pages about “The Geographic Educator”, sold with the slogan ‘You can “sell the world” with this wonderful, entertaining, instructive and fascinating puzzle’. The puzzle in question was a globe, dissected into seven sections, six of which represented a continent and were each circular puzzles in themselves, with tiny pieces representing countries or regions. The whole lot was made of Bakelite and sold, in 1927, for $7.50, equivalent to £100 today!
Other articles included a request for help in identifying two missing AVN Jones South African Series puzzles; “Harry Eliott unmasked” – about the French “gentleman illustrateur normand” who painted in a style very similar to Cecil Aldin but under the pseudonym Harry Eliott; and a tribute to the late Martin Norgate in form of an article written by Alan about “Two Remarkable Puzzles” , among the several that Martin made and left to BCD members to share and enjoy, these being the circularly titled “Doing a Jigsaw” and the baffling “A Piece of Jarlsberg” both beautifully illustrating Martin’s whimsical and challenging approach to cutting puzzles.