Jay Pat Loc: Round Rock, Texas, USA

These are about 4”x6”
Anyone know anything about these????
Thanks, Pat

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Jay Pat Loc: Round Rock, Texas, USA

This one is about 5”x7”.
Name in lower left is Walter J Morgan.
British , 1847-192?
An artist.
Pat

Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

alliebess Loc: suburban Philadelphia

Based on sizes and simple shapes of the pieces they were probably designed for young children.

Jay Pat Loc: Round Rock, Texas, USA

These puzzle pieces are about 1/4” thick wood.
The puzzles could be a lot newer than the artist.
Thanks for the link.
Pat

Jay Pat Loc: Round Rock, Texas, USA

I agree.
I really don’t know.
Thanks!
Pat

jpgto Loc: North East Tennessee

Interesting. Something new for me!

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Interesting. Jigsaw puzzles certainly aren't something new, but I've never seen old ones.

Country Boy Loc: Beckley, WV

I had an uncle that was a photographer by hobby that built these with photos he took of Colorado vacation shots. I am not familiar with the ones you have but these wooden puzzles are interesting works.

dragoncello

I can identify the subject of the first puzzle. In Dante's Purgatorio, the second part of the Divine Comedy, his old flame Beatrice guides him up the mountain of Purgatory, and at the top he comes to the site of the garden of Eden. He and Beatrice stand on one side of the river Lethe (which you can see flowing down the middle of the image), and on the other shore they see a woman picking flowers. The passage in question can be found in Purgatorio, canto 28, lines 22-42 or so. The woman stays with Dante and Beatrice right through to the end of Purgatorio in canto 33, where she's identified as "Matilda." This doesn't help much, since people still disagree about who this Matilda might be.

I usually wouldn't be so pedantic (I taught Dante for 35 years), but I thought Jay Pat would want some detail about the image.

dragoncello

Okay, let me try again, since I got that so wrong. I shouldn't write anything before coffee. I was driving to the supermarket and, "Doh!"--how could I have written that? I hope nobody notices before I get back to correct myself.

Beatrice comes into the poem canto 30 of Purgatorio (in one of the most dramatic and unforgettable scenes in the whole poem) and the character with Dante on the shore of the river Lethe is the ancient Roman poet, Virgil, his guide since the first Canto of Inferno. Lethe marks the limit of Virgil's ascent and it's from the other side of the river that Beatrice takes over, so here's the corrected description of the scene represented for Jay Pat's benefit:
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I can identify the subject of the first puzzle. In Dante's Purgatorio, the second part of the Divine Comedy, the ancient Roman poet, Virgil, guides Dante up the mountain of Purgatory, and at the top he comes to the site of the garden of Eden. He and Virgil stand on one side of the river Lethe (which you can see flowing down the middle of the image), and on the other shore they see a woman picking flowers. The passage in question can be found in Purgatorio, canto 28, lines 22-42 or so. The woman stays with Dante right through to the end of Purgatorio in canto 33, where she's identified as "Matilda." This doesn't help much, since people still disagree about who this Matilda might be.

G Brown Loc: Sunny Bognor Regis West Sussex UK

Jigsaws used to be hand cut with a Jig Saw, before being stamped out by machine. Having less links, and more obvious pieces, they were often given to children. Certainly, wooden backed jigsaws 'survived longer' with children.

perhaps an email to one of the current jigsaw producers might throw up their history.