Finished 11th September 2016

Remembering 9/11

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400 Pieces

"Drake goes West"

by Claude Buckle (1905-1973)

Sir Francis Drake, Vice Admiral (1540 – 27 January 1596) was an English sea captain, a renowned pirate. He is shown with his beloved ship the Golden Hind. This railway poster promotional artwork was sold as a GWR jigsaw by Chad Valley. 

 

The artist's website

Finished 20th January and updated with more details 24th Jan. 2016

 400 Pieces

The King's Hall and College of Brasenose, Oxford (GB)

 51° 45′ 11.54″ N, 1° 15′ 17.03″ W

a vintage wooden jigsaw puzzle
update: A railway poster of Brasenose College Oxford by Claude Buckle (painter, 1905-1973). This is one of the first posters produced and the original watercolour is held by the National Railway Museum. The image has proved to be very popular and is often re-produced (link)

The college is named after a bronze door knocker :-)) ............... it was founded in 1509, with the College library and current chapel added in the mid-seventeenth century. The College's New Quadrangle was completed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

There's a small leaflet added to the jigsaw puzzle.