ISSUE 85 OFFICIAL PUZZLE CLUB October 2012 SELECTED JIGSAWS

It’s all down to me this month so hope you enjoy JIGS Newsletter. Got 4 pages instead of a small corner so thought I’d treat you all to a few specials to help make space for the goodies to come… Anyway here goes. Firstly a warm welcome to everyone old & new. (Let me know how I’ve done-Vote Jig for future Newsletters!!)

Downton Abbey 2 from Gibsons Autumn Collection - Available in both £1000 piece & 500 piece at THE OFFICIAL £13.00/9.00 Night before Christmas Proud to be British - Limited edition Jigsaw READ ABOUT from Falcon Jumbo 1000 piece with serial numbered certificate. Will be a 5 interesting facts UK PUZZLE CLUB Jigsaw available at £13.00 collector’s item in years to come. In celebration of Her Majesty’s 60 years - 1000 piece Jigsaw Bonus Buys for all the family available at £14.00 Jan Van Haasteren latest Jigsaw They’ve only been around for about 250 years. Winning Ways To order Night before Christmas and/or Proud to be British LE and/or Downton Abbey 2 or any of the other products featured in Official Puzzle Club selected Jigsaws All too often, the identities of the original inventors of traditional this issue complete the Order form below and send with your remittance payable to: The Official UK Puzzle ClubThe Official UK Puzzle toys and games are lost in the mists of time. Not so the jigsaw Club, PO Box 3351, Wokingham, Berkshire RG41 2WE. (If you don’t want to spoil your newsletter, simply put your request on paper) puzzle. As it turns out, they’re really not all that old, relatively Code No/Description Price Quantity Value speaking. John Spilsbury, an English cartographer, made the very first jigsaw puzzle in 1767 when he chopped up a wooden map of FJ10005 Night before Christmas - 1000pc £13.00 G7003 Proud to be British - Limited Edition 1000pc £14.00 Name Britain and challenged the public to reassemble it. He called it a G7032 Downton Abbey - 2 - 1000pc £13.00 “dissected puzzle,” and it became a popular teaching tool. G3054 Downton Abbey 2 - 500 pc £9.00 Address 5 Facts About They’re not made with jigsaws. O58883 In the Garden - 1000pc £9.75 O58587 The Hayfields - 1000pc £9.75 When you hear “jigsaw puzzle,” you probably think of something H09119 Jolly Friar - 1000pc £10.88 Jigsaw Puzzles made by, well, a saw. Not an unreasonable idea - and for most of H09129 Hathaway Best - 1000pc £10.88 H09137 Sunday Tea Time - Stephen Darbishire - 1000pc £10.88 Both brain-teasing and curiously relaxing, a good jigsaw their history, you’d be right. In their early days, jigsaw puzzles H09155 Cuernavaca Flower Market - 1000pc £10.88 puzzle is still one of the nation’s favourite ways to while away were initially built by painting pictures on large sheets of wood, H09156 Sunday Morning-lle Sur Songe - 1000pc £10.88 then using a jigsaw to cut out the pieces. R19302 Above the Rooftops of Paris - 1000pc £10.50 Postcode a rainy afternoon. C39165.3 Egyptian Tripych -Panorama - 1000pc £10.50 But time marches on, and these days the vast majority of puzzles Telephone But no matter how many thousand-piece behemoths you’ve got C39167.7 Firenze - 1000pc £10.50 aren’t made with a saw at all. Cheaper puzzles are made from G5017 The January Sales - 2 x 1000 piece £15.00 under your belt, we bet at least a few of these jigsaw facts are CS33272 Little Mermaid - 1000 pc £7.50 Email news to you. Did you know that the world’s largest jigsaw weighs cardboard, using a metal die to slice a sheet all in one go, cookie- CS33277 Puss In Boots - 1000pc £7.50 cutter style. Top-end wooden puzzles use precision laser cutters or Newsletter by email Yes No over 40 pounds? Or that they’re not made with saws at all? Or that PLG9213 Tarzan - 1000pc £10.75 high-pressure jets of water to do the hard work. PLG9407 Sailors - Loup - 1000pc £10.75 -- if you really want -- you can pay nearly £10,000 for one? Read on.

PLG9491 Dogs Life - Degano - 1000pc Triangular box £10.75 Membership No. The largest jigsaw in the world is...Huge They struck gold during the Depression. PLG9494 Safari - Calligaro -1500pc £16.75 PLG9496 Bunnytown - Ruyer - 1000pc - Triangular box £10.50 Meet the world’s largest jigsaw puzzle, according to the Guinness The golden age of jigsaw puzzles is generally held to be around the O58877 The Crazy Gang - Circular 1000pc - 68cm diameter £9.75 1920s and ‘30s, thanks to the advent of improved manufacturing Ref Book of World Records. Spanning 17 feet and made up of some technology - and the Great Depression. Intricate jigsaws could be Ref 32,000 pieces, the Double Retrospect, drawn by artist Keith mass-produced cheaply for the first time, and there was a wealth of Ref Gold Members- Please deduct 10% from above Haring, is something of a monstrosity. Thanks to its wide swathes Ref prices, excluding p&p. If requesting carrier of single-color pieces, it’s a beast to build, too. Its makers reckon bored, down-on-their-luck children and adults looking for cheap, Ref delivery – do not include postage charge sustainable ways to pass their time. During the ‘30s, magazines Ref it’ll take about 400 hours for the average puzzler to complete. Total Value began giving away puzzles every week. You could even rent them Postage & Packing £4.00 If you want one for yourself, it’ll set you back about £200, although for a few cents in places like restaurants and diners. Now there’s a Optional Next Day Carrier £6.50 maker Ravensburger will throw in a custom-made luggage cart tradition that needs to catch on again. to sweeten the deal. We suggest you warn your delivery guy, I enclose cheque/postal order for value £ made payable to the Official UK Puzzle Club because it weights over 40 pounds. And make sure you have a They can cost thousands. Please debit my Credit/Debit card for £ Card Type Master Card Visa Maestro/Solo hundred square feet of floor space you don’t mind donating to Thousands? Yep. Some puzzles with celebrity connections or *Card No: your new obsession. museum pieces from the Spilsbury era fetch huge prices. But Issue No: Security Code : what’s the most expensive, readily available jigsaw puzzle in the Valid From: Expiry Date : world? Look no further than Vermont-based Stave Puzzles, makers Signature: of high-quality, hand-made, custom wooden puzzles. Please allow up to 28 days for delivery *Please attach cardholder’s details if different from above Their top-priced offering is ‘Knight at Stavely Castle’, a complex, five-layered, 750-piece masterpiece depicting a knight, a castle, a Contact us: dragon, and a sword buried in a stone. And it can be yours for a Official UK Puzzle Club, PO Box 3351, Wokingham, Berks RG41 2WE Telephone: 0118 978 9599 Email: [email protected] mere $8,995 - although they’ll thoughtfully knock off a thousand www.jigsaw-puzzle-club.co.uk if you order it online. Barneys Newsbox holds one of the largest puzzle selections available and caters for ALL sizes. Tel: 01539 435627

General Sales - Telephone 0118 978 9599 Helpline and General membership enquiries - Telephone 0118 978 9599 Bag a prezzie for your friends, family or just for you JUST FOR FUN Reader’s Letters & Wig’s Corner back next month. This month whilst I’m in charge thought we’d have a grand event. Collect your Christmas presents at 25% OFF (WHILST STOCK LASTS). Do please select an alternative choice just in case… (No other discounts allowed on these selections) FOR AGES 3-103!

PLG9213 Tarzan - 1000pc £10.75 CS33272 Little Mermaid CS33277 Puss in Boots PLG9407 Sailors - Loup - 1000pc 1000 pc £7.50 1000pc £7.50 £10.75

JK003 Jungle Beasts - David GE0101 Europe - educational R14034 London-Cityscape Sheskin 300xxl 58 country shaped pieces 300pc (49 x 36) £6.38 (61 x 47cm) £7.50 GE0111 World - educational - 68 country (48 x 41) £12.00 shaped pieces (66 X 32CM) £12.00

PLG9491 Dogs Life - Degano PLG9496 Bunnytown - Ruyer O58877 The Crazy Gang - Circular PLG9494 Safari-Calligaro 1000pc - Triangular box £20.75 1000pc - Triangular box £10.50 1000pc - 68cm diameter £9.75 1500pc £16.75 FINE ART/MASTERPIECES

R13003 Wild Jungle R12559 Tower Bridge-3D Model R14035 London - Skyline 300pc R13160 Happy Animal Buddies 300xxl (49 x 36) £6.38 216pc 115cm wide £22.50 (49 x 36) £6.38 300xxl (49 x 36) £6.38

SCENIC SELECTION C31437 Madonna Sistina (all 1000 piece) AA552 Niagara Frederich C31469 Greatmuse - Klimt C39178.3 Caravaggio 1000pc £10.50 Church 1000pc £9.75 Three Ages of Woman - 1000pc Boy with Basket of Fruit £10.50 1000pc £10.50 THE BIG CHALLENGE

R11460 Sunset in Desert R13048 The Ark - 300xxl £6.38 FJ13204 Wasgij Boom & Bust Triangular 240pc £11.25 Family Puzzle 615 pieces £8.25

C32538.2 Winter Reflection C32541.2 Botticelli - Primavera C36514 Majestic Kingdom C36516.6 Ramsau-Bavarian Alps O58587 The Hayfields O58883 In the Garden Yosemite National Park - 2000pc 2000pc - (97.5 x 66.8) £16.50 6000pc - (165 x 114) £39.00 6000pc (165 x 114) £39.00 1000pc £9.75 1000pc £9.75 (97.5 x 47) £16.50

H09119 Jolly Friar 1000pc £10.88 H09129 Hathaway Best H09137 Sunday Tea Time-Stephen 1000pc £10.88 Darbishire - 1000pc £10.88 AND LASTLY ONE FOR RESERVE ONLY (available beginning November)

H09155 Cuernavaca Flower R17823 At the Water Hole 18000pc R17426 Underwater Tranquillity, R17427 James Rizzi, 5000pc Market-1000pc £10.88 (276 x 192) £93.75 5000pc (153 x 101) £37.50 (153 x 101cm) £37.50

R19302 Above the Rooftops of C39167.7 Firenze-1000pc £10.50 Paris - 1000pc £10.50 WINNING WAYS ISSUE 83 Winners for issue 83 will be announced in the next newsletter ISSUE 85 Did I make any mistakes? I am sure I didn’t, but if you G5017 The January Sales - 2 x 1000 spot one, we’ll send you a 1000 piece jigsaw of your R17838 Double Retrospect Keith Haring, 32000pc (with FJ17216 - 1500PC/3000pc H09156 Sunday Morning-lle Sur piece £15.00 choice – Do include the details of what you would like trolley) (500 x 200) £150.00 Jan Van Faasteren - Crazy Golf Songe-1000pc £10.88 C39165.3 Egyptian Tripych Panorama - 1000pc £10.50 with your entry. Answers by 30th November please. Jig £15.00/£30.00 Bag a prezzie for your friends, family or just for you JUST FOR FUN Reader’s Letters & Wig’s Corner back next month. This month whilst I’m in charge thought we’d have a grand event. Collect your Christmas presents at 25% OFF (WHILST STOCK LASTS). Do please select an alternative choice just in case… (No other discounts allowed on these selections) FOR AGES 3-103!

PLG9213 Tarzan - 1000pc £10.75 CS33272 Little Mermaid CS33277 Puss in Boots PLG9407 Sailors - Loup - 1000pc 1000 pc £7.50 1000pc £7.50 £10.75

JK003 Jungle Beasts - David GE0101 Europe - educational R14034 London-Cityscape Sheskin 300xxl 58 country shaped pieces 300pc (49 x 36) £6.38 (61 x 47cm) £7.50 GE0111 World - educational - 68 country (48 x 41) £12.00 shaped pieces (66 X 32CM) £12.00

PLG9491 Dogs Life - Degano PLG9496 Bunnytown - Ruyer O58877 The Crazy Gang - Circular PLG9494 Safari-Calligaro 1000pc - Triangular box £20.75 1000pc - Triangular box £10.50 1000pc - 68cm diameter £9.75 1500pc £16.75 FINE ART/MASTERPIECES

R13003 Wild Jungle R12559 Tower Bridge-3D Model R14035 London - Skyline 300pc R13160 Happy Animal Buddies 300xxl (49 x 36) £6.38 216pc 115cm wide £22.50 (49 x 36) £6.38 300xxl (49 x 36) £6.38

SCENIC SELECTION C31437 Madonna Sistina (all 1000 piece) AA552 Niagara Frederich C31469 Greatmuse - Klimt C39178.3 Caravaggio 1000pc £10.50 Church 1000pc £9.75 Three Ages of Woman - 1000pc Boy with Basket of Fruit £10.50 1000pc £10.50 THE BIG CHALLENGE

R11460 Sunset in Desert R13048 The Ark - 300xxl £6.38 FJ13204 Wasgij Boom & Bust Triangular 240pc £11.25 Family Puzzle 615 pieces £8.25

C32538.2 Winter Reflection C32541.2 Botticelli - Primavera C36514 Majestic Kingdom C36516.6 Ramsau-Bavarian Alps O58587 The Hayfields O58883 In the Garden Yosemite National Park - 2000pc 2000pc - (97.5 x 66.8) £16.50 6000pc - (165 x 114) £39.00 6000pc (165 x 114) £39.00 1000pc £9.75 1000pc £9.75 (97.5 x 47) £16.50

H09119 Jolly Friar 1000pc £10.88 H09129 Hathaway Best H09137 Sunday Tea Time-Stephen 1000pc £10.88 Darbishire - 1000pc £10.88 AND LASTLY ONE FOR RESERVE ONLY (available beginning November)

H09155 Cuernavaca Flower R17823 At the Water Hole 18000pc R17426 Underwater Tranquillity, R17427 James Rizzi, 5000pc Market-1000pc £10.88 (276 x 192) £93.75 5000pc (153 x 101) £37.50 (153 x 101cm) £37.50

R19302 Above the Rooftops of C39167.7 Firenze-1000pc £10.50 Paris - 1000pc £10.50 WINNING WAYS ISSUE 83 Winners for issue 83 will be announced in the next newsletter ISSUE 85 Did I make any mistakes? I am sure I didn’t, but if you G5017 The January Sales - 2 x 1000 spot one, we’ll send you a 1000 piece jigsaw of your R17838 Double Retrospect Keith Haring, 32000pc (with FJ17216 - 1500PC/3000pc H09156 Sunday Morning-lle Sur piece £15.00 choice – Do include the details of what you would like trolley) (500 x 200) £150.00 Jan Van Faasteren - Crazy Golf Songe-1000pc £10.88 C39165.3 Egyptian Tripych Panorama - 1000pc £10.50 with your entry. Answers by 30th November please. Jig £15.00/£30.00 ISSUE 85 OFFICIAL PUZZLE CLUB October 2012 SELECTED JIGSAWS

It’s all down to me this month so hope you enjoy JIGS Newsletter. Got 4 pages instead of a small corner so thought I’d treat you all to a few specials to help make space for the goodies to come… Anyway here goes. Firstly a warm welcome to everyone old & new. (Let me know how I’ve done-Vote Jig for future Newsletters!!)

Downton Abbey 2 from Gibsons Autumn Collection - Available in both £1000 piece & 500 piece at THE OFFICIAL £13.00/9.00 Night before Christmas Proud to be British - Limited edition Jigsaw READ ABOUT from Falcon Jumbo 1000 piece with serial numbered certificate. Will be a 5 interesting facts UK PUZZLE CLUB Jigsaw available at £13.00 collector’s item in years to come. In celebration of Her Majesty’s 60 years - 1000 piece Jigsaw Bonus Buys for all the family available at £14.00 Jan Van Haasteren latest Jigsaw They’ve only been around for about 250 years. Winning Ways To order Night before Christmas and/or Proud to be British LE and/or Downton Abbey 2 or any of the other products featured in Official Puzzle Club selected Jigsaws All too often, the identities of the original inventors of traditional this issue complete the Order form below and send with your remittance payable to: The Official UK Puzzle ClubThe Official UK Puzzle toys and games are lost in the mists of time. Not so the jigsaw Club, PO Box 3351, Wokingham, Berkshire RG41 2WE. (If you don’t want to spoil your newsletter, simply put your request on paper) puzzle. As it turns out, they’re really not all that old, relatively Code No/Description Price Quantity Value speaking. John Spilsbury, an English cartographer, made the very first jigsaw puzzle in 1767 when he chopped up a wooden map of FJ10005 Night before Christmas - 1000pc £13.00 G7003 Proud to be British - Limited Edition 1000pc £14.00 Name Britain and challenged the public to reassemble it. He called it a G7032 Downton Abbey - 2 - 1000pc £13.00 “dissected puzzle,” and it became a popular teaching tool. G3054 Downton Abbey 2 - 500 pc £9.00 Address 5 Facts About They’re not made with jigsaws. O58883 In the Garden - 1000pc £9.75 O58587 The Hayfields - 1000pc £9.75 When you hear “jigsaw puzzle,” you probably think of something H09119 Jolly Friar - 1000pc £10.88 Jigsaw Puzzles made by, well, a saw. Not an unreasonable idea - and for most of H09129 Hathaway Best - 1000pc £10.88 H09137 Sunday Tea Time - Stephen Darbishire - 1000pc £10.88 Both brain-teasing and curiously relaxing, a good jigsaw their history, you’d be right. In their early days, jigsaw puzzles H09155 Cuernavaca Flower Market - 1000pc £10.88 puzzle is still one of the nation’s favourite ways to while away were initially built by painting pictures on large sheets of wood, H09156 Sunday Morning-lle Sur Songe - 1000pc £10.88 then using a jigsaw to cut out the pieces. R19302 Above the Rooftops of Paris - 1000pc £10.50 Postcode a rainy afternoon. C39165.3 Egyptian Tripych -Panorama - 1000pc £10.50 But time marches on, and these days the vast majority of puzzles Telephone But no matter how many thousand-piece behemoths you’ve got C39167.7 Firenze - 1000pc £10.50 aren’t made with a saw at all. Cheaper puzzles are made from G5017 The January Sales - 2 x 1000 piece £15.00 under your belt, we bet at least a few of these jigsaw facts are CS33272 Little Mermaid - 1000 pc £7.50 Email news to you. Did you know that the world’s largest jigsaw weighs cardboard, using a metal die to slice a sheet all in one go, cookie- CS33277 Puss In Boots - 1000pc £7.50 cutter style. Top-end wooden puzzles use precision laser cutters or Newsletter by email Yes No over 40 pounds? Or that they’re not made with saws at all? Or that PLG9213 Tarzan - 1000pc £10.75 high-pressure jets of water to do the hard work. PLG9407 Sailors - Loup - 1000pc £10.75 -- if you really want -- you can pay nearly £10,000 for one? Read on.

PLG9491 Dogs Life - Degano - 1000pc Triangular box £10.75 Membership No. The largest jigsaw in the world is...Huge They struck gold during the Depression. PLG9494 Safari - Calligaro -1500pc £16.75 PLG9496 Bunnytown - Ruyer - 1000pc - Triangular box £10.50 Meet the world’s largest jigsaw puzzle, according to the Guinness The golden age of jigsaw puzzles is generally held to be around the O58877 The Crazy Gang - Circular 1000pc - 68cm diameter £9.75 1920s and ‘30s, thanks to the advent of improved manufacturing Ref Book of World Records. Spanning 17 feet and made up of some technology - and the Great Depression. Intricate jigsaws could be Ref 32,000 pieces, the Double Retrospect, drawn by artist Keith mass-produced cheaply for the first time, and there was a wealth of Ref Gold Members- Please deduct 10% from above Haring, is something of a monstrosity. Thanks to its wide swathes Ref prices, excluding p&p. If requesting carrier of single-color pieces, it’s a beast to build, too. Its makers reckon bored, down-on-their-luck children and adults looking for cheap, Ref delivery – do not include postage charge sustainable ways to pass their time. During the ‘30s, magazines Ref it’ll take about 400 hours for the average puzzler to complete. Total Value began giving away puzzles every week. You could even rent them Postage & Packing £4.00 If you want one for yourself, it’ll set you back about £200, although for a few cents in places like restaurants and diners. Now there’s a Optional Next Day Carrier £6.50 maker Ravensburger will throw in a custom-made luggage cart tradition that needs to catch on again. to sweeten the deal. We suggest you warn your delivery guy, I enclose cheque/postal order for value £ made payable to the Official UK Puzzle Club because it weights over 40 pounds. And make sure you have a They can cost thousands. Please debit my Credit/Debit card for £ Card Type Master Card Visa Maestro/Solo hundred square feet of floor space you don’t mind donating to Thousands? Yep. Some puzzles with celebrity connections or *Card No: your new obsession. museum pieces from the Spilsbury era fetch huge prices. But Issue No: Security Code : what’s the most expensive, readily available jigsaw puzzle in the Valid From: Expiry Date : world? Look no further than Vermont-based Stave Puzzles, makers Signature: of high-quality, hand-made, custom wooden puzzles. Please allow up to 28 days for delivery *Please attach cardholder’s details if different from above Their top-priced offering is ‘Knight at Stavely Castle’, a complex, five-layered, 750-piece masterpiece depicting a knight, a castle, a Contact us: dragon, and a sword buried in a stone. And it can be yours for a Official UK Puzzle Club, PO Box 3351, Wokingham, Berks RG41 2WE Telephone: 0118 978 9599 Email: [email protected] mere $8,995 - although they’ll thoughtfully knock off a thousand www.jigsaw-puzzle-club.co.uk if you order it online. Barneys Newsbox holds one of the largest puzzle selections available and caters for ALL sizes. Tel: 01539 435627

General Sales - Telephone 0118 978 9599 Helpline and General membership enquiries - Telephone 0118 978 9599