Completed 23rd August 2026

  

1000 pcs.

Vintage Posters by D-Toys: "Les Prevoyants de l'Avenir" 

a huge celebration with nightly fireworks, marking the 10-Millionth member of a pension fund in France 1893. At that time, the Eiffel Tower had been standing for exactly 4 years—it was built as the entrance gate to the 1889 World's Exhibition.

 Admission to the celebration on the Champ de Mars cost 50 centimes. Here’s a brief aside on purchasing power (today, 50 centimes is worth about €2.00–2.50) - but what could you buy with that in 1893? For example

    1.3 kg of bread
    2–3 liters of milk
    a plate of stew at a soup kitchen
    2–3 daily newspapers
    a ride on the omnibus carriage in Paris
    admission to the celebration at the Eiffel Tower

 

 

Completed 28th February 2026

  

300 Pieces

A Day of celebration

by Carl Larsson (Swedish, 1853-1919), from "A Home"-Series, c. 1895

Watercolour on Paper, 43 x 32 cm - National Museum, Stockholm, Sweden

Pomegranate, USA (Made in China)

 

Carl Larsson met the painter Karin Bergöö in a colony in France. The couple married and started to grow a family. In 1888 they moved to Sweden. From then on, Larsson started painting mainly family life. The painting "A Day of Celebration" depicts his children, costumed and in procession.

Finished 27th November 2015 - another set of finger exercises

The second set of wooden jigsaw puzzles contains five Wentworth Jigsaws with 40 pcs. each

including their cute Whimsies

 Alice in wonderland - by Royce B. McClure

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 Gabrielle and the Nouveau Poster - Lesly Anne Ivory

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 Hamburg, Alster panoramic view - IqRS

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  Valdemar Atterdag holding Visby to ransom 1361 -  Carl Gustav Hellquist (1851-1890)

National Museum Stockholm

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London - The Thames with View of the City and St. Pauls - Canaletto 

1 piece missing (I assembled this one with 250 pieces in 2012)

Finished 28th + 30th January 2011

2000 Pieces

The Times of the day
by Alphonse Mucha, 24.7.1860 - 14.7.1939

A Masterpiece of Art Nouveau. Up to date were so-called "Panneaus", a set of four paintings with the same theme. The Times of the day are dated 1899 and were printed on silk.

An extraordinary painter and artist. I really like these wonderful jigsaws and will solve some more of them. A summary and biography of A. Mucha is linked on the right side

part 2 - left wing - finished 30th January
awakening of the morning
blooming of the day

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part 1 - right wing - finished 28th January
dreams of the evening
silence of the night

Finished 29th January 2010

1000 Pieces
Frank Lloyd Wright
"Saguaro Glass Design"
- Saguaro Forms and Cactus Flowers. Backlit art glass mural adapted in 1973 from a.c. 1927 design by Frank Lloyd Wright -

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) invented a new architecture in the U.S. - he was inspired by native living concentrated on the fireplace as a meeting place. He was a multi-genius and worked as architect, editor, art-dealer and designer.

F.L.Wright created Saguaro in 1927/28 as one of a series of unpublished magazine covers.
Saguaro (Carnegiea gigantea) is a cactus that may grow up to 20 m.
"Saguaro", the art glass mural, now decorates the lobby of the Arizona Biltmore resort in Phoenix.