Finished 1st May 2014

 MB Cities: Houston

District of Downtown Houston as seen from the Sabine Street Bridge at Interstate 45

Age: 1992

Finished 26th April 2014

1500 Pieces

Eilean Donan Castle, Scotland

(Manufacturer: TREFL; Copyright: BE&W, Photography Agency)

Assembled ? - received 24th April 2014

 252 Pieces

King George VI. Coronation Procession

12th May 1937

Manufacturer unknown (maybe Lumar)

Age unknown (maybe 1937)

status: stuck on a piece of brown cardboard

Source

This precious little jigsaw puzzle made of Cardboard will be part of my collection.

Finished 21st April 2014

 480 (+4) Pieces

The Oval Salon at Versailles

Painted by John Haynes-Williams (1863-1908)

Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, East Sussex

Manufacturer: PINTOO, China

Material: plastic material, very small sized (approx. 1,7 x 2,5 cm)

in fact, this salon can be seen at Fontainebleau (not Versailles) and is also called "Salon Louis XIII."!

Once assembled, the four parts can be shown on display like a 'paravent'

 The reverse side is decorated with a floral ornament:

 six frame joints:

 

 

by the way: these are the almost true colours! It's a bit too green...

it was easy to assemble in the lower parts and a challenge in the upper parts, but at least, it was an interesting finger exercise :-D

Finished 20th April + updated 12th May 2014 (animated)

8000 pieces

Alexander the Great visits the atelier of Apelles
Willem van Haecht

Please visit the "under construction"-documentary:

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