Lias jigsaw puzzles: August 2013

2013-08-31

Finished 31st August + updated 21st. October 2013

600 Pieces

Imperial Egg "Rosebud" by Carl Peter Fabergé

made in 1895 of guilloched enamel, gold and diamonds and given to the Tsarina Alexandra by her husband Tsar Nicolas II in 1895. When opened it reveals a rosebud that beared a golden crown and a ruby-pendant. These treasures are lost now while the rosebud is still where it belongs.

The egg was taken 1917 from the imperial treasury by the revolutionary government, sold to a jeweler in London ten years later and got lost during the 1930ies. In 1980es Malcolm Forbes found it due to a description and bought it from the Fine Art Society, London. Victor Vekselberg, a russian oligarch, bought it from the Forbes Collection with 8 other Imperial Eggs and several Fabergé-Masterpieces of Art for 100 Million US-$ - since then he showed them on display throughout Europe. Mr. Vekselberg is said to own the greatest private collection of 9 imperial eggs.

Find out more exciting information on "Treasures of Imperial Russia" (link unvalid by End of October 2013)

The Jigsaw Puzzle dates back to 1998 when the Imperial Egg was owned by the Forbes Collection.

It is oval-shaped and was made for Past Times, GB.

2013-08-30

Finished 29th August 2013

500 Pieces

Hummingbirds of South and Central America

A James-Hamilton-Jigsaw Puzzle

with english description on the reverse side of the box - I added the latin description as well as the german names.

on top: Anna's Hummingbird (Calypte anna) - Annakolibri

below: Amethyst Woodstar (Calliphlox amethystina) - Amethystkolibri

Broad-billed Hummingbird (Cynanthus latirostris) - Breitschnabelkolibri

on top: blue-throated Hummingbird (Lampornis clemenciae) - Blauhalskolibri

middle: Wedge-billed Hb. (Schistes geoffroyi) - Bunthalskolibri

below: Glowing Puffleg (Eriocnemis vestita) - Violetthals-Höschenkolibri

on top: White-vented plumeleteer (Chalybura buffonii) - Blauschwanz-Buffonkolibri

middle: Blue-throated starfrontlet (Coeligena helianthea) - Blaukehlmusketier

below: Spangled coquette (Lophornis stictolophus) - Glanzelfe

top left: green-breasted mango (Anthracothorax prevostii) - Grünbrustmango

top right: Crimson topaz (Topaza pella) - Rotnacken-Topazkolibri

below: Bronze tailed siddebill (?)

Calliope Hummingbird (Selasphorus calliope) - Sternelfe

Orange-throated sunangel (Heliangelus mavors) - Orangekehl-Sonnennymphe

Rufous Hummingbird (Selasphorus rufus) - Rotrücken-Zimtelfe

on top: Wine-throated Hummingbird (Atthis ellioti) - Weinrothalsiger Kolibri

below: Violet-tailed sylphe (Aglaiocercus coelestis) - Violettschwänzige Sylphe

Ruby-throated Hummingbird (Archilochus colubris) - Rubinkehlkolibri

The Magnificent Hummingbird (Eugenes fulgens) - Prachtkolibri

on top: Raquet-tailed coquette (Discosura longicauda) - Diskuselfe

below left: Forktailed woodnymph (Thalurania furcata) - Schwalbennymphe

below right: Collared inca (Coeligena torquata) - Brustband-Andenkolibri

2013-08-28

Finished 28th August 2013

500 Pieces

Royal Bandsmen, London

seems like these Musicians are Members of the "Band of the Welsh Guards"?
Not really sure about that...

2013-08-27

Finished 26th August 2013

437 Pieces

"Lord Howe on the Deck of the 'Queen Charlotte', 1 June 1794"

Painted by Mather Brown (1794)

National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Caird Collection

Currently not on display

The Jigsaw Puzzle is made by Waddingtons and dates back to 1970

It is cut like a enrolled document and the pieces are really extraordinary.

Lord Howe (brief history)

if you want to know more about the Third Battle of Ushant (aka "Glorious 1st of June") you might visit these sites:

an interesting declaration of the painting on the Website of the "Royal Museums Greenwich"
Wikipedia english and french version
Eine Erläuterung des Geschehens in deutscher Sprache

2013-08-25

The naked Piper....

The pipers moved

and so did several other unsolved jigsaw puzzles and their blogposts.
I decided to collect them in one post only :-)

Finished 24th August 2013

748 Pieces

Crummock Water - a Ken Duncan Panograph

"Crummock Water is a lake in the Lake District in Cumbria, North West England situated between Buttermere to the south and Loweswater to the north. Crummock Water is 4 km long, 500-900m wide and about 44m deep. The hill of Mellbreak runs the full length of the lake on its western side."(source)

... just watch the car on the Parking area - it measures 5x6mm and you can even see the pin sharp wing mirrors. Hurray for an extremely sharp print!

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note: today I marked all Ken-Duncan-Panograph jigsaw puzzles I assembled before. You might see them all with a click on the Ken Duncan label

Finished 24th August 2013

54 Pieces

Love is... inapprehensible

"Originally created by Kim Casali (born 9. September 1941 in Auckland, New Zealand; died 15. Juni 1997) as a way of expressing her feelings for her husband, Roberto, the Love is... characters and sentiments grew into the famous Love is... syndicated panels of the little naked boy and girl, first launched in The Los Angeles Times in 1970." (source)

Amazingly the artist died just 1 day before my husband and me became a couple...

assembled as a sweet little finger excercise :-)

2013-08-23

Finished 23rd August - updated 24th August 2013

500 Pieces

City of Flensburg

54° 46′ 55″ N, 9° 26′ 12″ E

Watercolour painting - the jigsaw puzzles dates back to 1985

This wonderful watercolour painting shows the port of Flensburg. The city is the northernmost independent city of Germany and was founded in the early 13th century. On the painting you can see the church spire of 13th c. built St. Marys;

and just before the church and the tall tree is the Kompagnietor (1602)
and the "Alexandra", a steam ship.

Finished 22nd August 2013

1000 Pieces

Underwater World

by David Penfound

2013-08-21

Finished 20th August 2013

1000 Pieces

The Story of Susanna

painted by Hans Schöpfer the Elder (1505-1569), a german portraitist, in 1537.

The original Painting can be visited at 'Alte Pinakothek', Munich (Germany).

As the story goes, a fair Hebrew wife named Susanna was falsely accused by voyeurs. As she bathes in her garden, having sent her attendants away, two lustful elders secretly observe the lovely Susanna. When she makes her way back to her house, they accost her, threatening to claim that she was meeting a young man in the garden... (find out more at wikipedia)

... isn't she lovely?

2013-08-14

Finished 14th August + updated 25th August 2013

250 Pieces

National Trust: Wildlife

2008, NTPL/Hans Christoph Kappel

The picture shows some of the iconic Atlantic Puffin (Fratercula Arctica) with their distinctive beaks at the Coast of Northumberland which is part of the National Trust of Great Britain.

Find out more about these birds in an excellent wikipedia - entry!

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Update - it's never too late to learn more about these cute birds!

(picture: copyright by Getty Images)

The Puffin can hold more than 10 fish in his beak due to barbed hooks on his muscular tongue.
The Puffin can grow up to 30 cm and get 30 years old.

The sticker shown above is taken from a series of 42 showing animals from the "Oceans of the world" - they are added to chocolate bars in Germany right now.