This was a nice enough rural scene type puzzle, in fact it’s #3 in the Rural Crafts series. I’m not usually a fan of vegetation in puzzles, and I could have done without the trees here 🙂
There is actually something strange in the way the farrier is working:
I found another puzzle that I completed last year and forgot to post about. Educa is usually not my favourite brand, but this was nice.
Another duck puzzle from the Kaj Stenvall collection. This is actually one of my favourite images in the series, and it also turned out to be a very entertaining puzzle. The quality was good, although some of the pieces were a bit worn. I could definitely tell that the puzzles has been completed a couple of times before. I was actually happy to find it complete, the box was badly scratched and there were some crayon markings as well, but I guess the child didn’t get into the box, because the pieces were not damaged, and also all there.
This door collage was just as fun as it looks! Even though the title is Doors of the World, all the doors look somehow English to me 🙂
Some of the pieces have probably absorbed some liquid at some point, but there was no discoloration (or smell), you could only tell because the fit was far too tight in some places.
I forgot to take closeups, but since there is no black and yellow door, of these, I would choose the pink door (third row, third from the right).
This, unfortunately, turned out to be probably the worst Ravensburger that I’ve ever done. Many of the pieces won’t lie flat, and the fit was also quite loose. I don’t mind a loose fit, but combined with a bad cut it doesn’t make for an enjoyable experience.
The puzzle is from 2004. I bought it second hand, but the bag with the pieces was still unopened.
Until I started working on it, I thought there would be hardly any text in this puzzle. Well, turned out that there were plenty of place names, you just needed a magnifying glass to see them:
I can’t think why they would have made the text so small. All in all, not a good day for Ravensburger.
Lovely image by Loup in panorama format. It turned out to be a bit more difficult than I had anticipated, but it was still fun.
Another puzzle with a Dalà image. Many Bluebird art puzzles have gone a bit wild with the colour saturation, but that’s definitely not the case here. The image on Wikpedia looks more saturated than this, but photos can be deceiving, and even more so when viewed on a computer.
There is an actual burning giraffe in the image, to the left, although I didn’t notice it before I started doing the puzzle. Dalà had used the burning giraffe image before, and according to Wikipedia, “Dalà described this image as “the masculine cosmic apocalyptic monster”. He believed it to be a premonition of war.” The painting is from 1937, when Spain was in the middle of a civil war.
More ducks by Kaj Stenvall, this time sleeping in a boat. The fit was much tighter than the previous puzzle, but although this was factory sealed, many pieces had some lift, and the overall feel was not good. You really never know what you get with Tactic.
Another Kaj Stenvall collection puzzle. This one was fairly easy, and the quality was otherwise OK, but the fit was very loose. I didn’t really mind, I really enjoyed this!
This was a fun collage full of stuff associated with London (in many cases with England). I started with the quotes (“When a man is tired of London he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford” – Samuel Johnson and “A bad day in London is still better than a good day anywhere else” – Unknown), then I pulled the red pieces.
The crown, Sherlock Holmes, and “Mind the Gap” (the gap between train and platform on the Tube).
It was raining in almost all the images 🙂
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