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| "East Orange Vermont," Guild, 1500 pieces, 27 x 33 inches |
After a two-week drought, I finally found three decent puzzles at a nearby Goodwill Store this morning. This old Guild puzzle from 1982 is my favorite of the three, however, especially since it is still factory sealed and the box looks like new. The photo up above is my own photo of the top of that box, in fact.
"East Orange, Vermont" is one puzzle in a six-puzzle series that Guild was producing in those days, and it's probably the most colorful of the group. I suspect that this is going to be a tough one when I finally get to it because all those orange leaves (which amount to at least 25% of the 1500 pieces) are going to be hard to tell apart. I haven't opened the puzzle yet, so I'm hoping that the piece-shapes will be varied enough to help me out a bit. If this is a simple grid-pattern cut, I'm going to be in a lot of trouble.
The six puzzles in the series, as shown on the sides of the box:
You will note that the puzzle was purchased from a store called Motts for $3.79 (I'm not familiar with Motts - anyone know where they were located?). By the way, I paid $3 for it today, and considering inflation over the last 35 years, that is one heck of a bargain by any standard.
These puzzles are all actual photographs rather than the kind of art work that most of today's puzzles are based upon. I grew up on the photographic style, and I remember how difficult they could be in the old days because the images were usually not all that sharp - and if they were ever sharp, the reproductions used for the puzzles never seemed to capture that.
I do plan to work this one at some point, but it seems almost a shame to open it up 35 years after it left Motts.
I grew up on photograph style jigsaws too, but there were artwork ones around too, which I prefered. But not in any way shape or form the variety of arty ones you see these days. We're so spolit for choice!
ReplyDeleteWe really are spoiled nowadays...and sometimes that makes it really hard to choose from a large display of puzzles. I remember some of those old art-piece puzzles, too, but I don't remember them being nearly as colorful and unusual as the ones we have today. Going back to one of the photo puzzles is going to be a special kind of challenge for me.
DeleteI wouldn't be able to wait if I were you, I'd open it up immediately to look at the pieces! LOL
ReplyDeleteI can't tell you how tempting that proposition is...I'll let you know if I cave in and do it.
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