Completed 3rd October 2024

  

240 (-2) Pieces

Horses by the Riverside

Photography by Tony Stone

F.X. Schmid, made in West Germany (=before 1989)

23rd Megamarathon - 5th > 7th January 2024

 Oh yes, it was megamarathon again!

67 participants (including me) from our german jgsaw puzzle forum managed to assemble more than 340k pieces. This is an all-time record! At the end I counted 5.919 pieces.

Here we go!

 On the first day I started assembling many small wooden jigsaw puzzles  

 140 Pieces

Portrait of  King Charles III - artist: Alastair Barford

 

 top left: Spivy Point, Dominic Davison

top right: Florence Bridge, Dominic Davison

below, left: Floors Castle (Aerial View from the River Tweed)

below, right: Venice at dusk, Dominic Davison

 

Sunflowers, Provence

Clive Madgwick

 

top: Skiing - Margaret Loxton

 middle:Forêt tropicale avec singes, 1910 - Herni Rousseau

below:Paris Streets, Dominic Davison

 

top: Snowflakes - Royce B. McClure

middle: Congratulations! - litraton.de

below: the most successful theatre in modern times = football / soccer

 

top: Sky Roads - Royce B. McClure

middle: Aber bitte mit Sahne - Jürgen Gildemeister - litraton.de

Mediterranean Morning - Dominic Davison

 

 

Top: the first and the fastest (2015) - Branth Chemicals, Hamburg

middle: partnerlook from Sylt - Klaro 19 5i - puzzlespezialisten.de

below: Le Pont Japonais - Claude Monet - Christie's Images, 1999

 

Giant's Causeway, Country Antrim - Peter Greenway, National Trust

 

 

Castle Schwerin - S. Andert - puzzlespezialisten.de

 

Afterwards

 

 

 

 

Finished 7th June 2023

 

7x 44 Pieces (-1)

Anne Geddes

Schmidt Spiele, Germany, 2002

 

 

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100 Pieces 

"Quiet time" by Chris Cummings

 SunsOut

 

Finished 24th December 2020

  

700 Pieces

Horse-car on NYC street

MB, 2004

A horse-drawn tram along 23rd Street and 4th Avenue in New York City. Photography by Bettmann / Getty Images

 

The Streetcar

The streetcar was the first important improvement over the omnibus. The first streetcars were also pulled by horses, but the streetcars rolled along special steel rails that were placed in the middle of the roadway instead of traveling along regular streets. The wheels of the streetcar were also made of steel, carefully manufactured in such a way so they would not roll off the rails. A horse-drawn streetcar was much more comfortable than an omnibus, and a single horse could pull a streetcar that was larger and carried more passengers.

The first streetcar began service in 1832 and ran along Bowery Street in New York. It was owned John Mason, a wealthy banker, and built by John Stephenson, an Irishman. Stephenson's New York company would become the largest and most famous builder of horse-drawn streetcars. New Orleans became the second American city to offer streetcars in 1835.

The typical American streetcar was operated by two crew members. One man, a driver, rode up front. His job was to drive the horse, controlled by a set of reigns. The driver also had a brake handle that he could use to stop the streetcar. When streetcars got bigger, sometimes two and three horses would be used to haul a single car. The second crew member was the conductor, who rode at the back of the car. His job was to help passengers get on and off the streetcar and to collect their fares. He gave the driver a signal when everyone was on board and it was safe to proceed, pulling on a rope that was attached to a bell that the driver could hear at the other end of the car. (SOURCE)

Development process of an (almost) unknown motif day 22/22 - revealed ... and completed

Your blogmistress loves to create advent calendars for a friend

and loves to assemble advent calendars since several years.

A few years ago we invented a jigsaw puzzle calendar event in our german jigsaw puzzle forum during summer. It starts on 1st of June and includes 22 bags (not 24). I organize it together with a friend and usually we don't take part. This year I surprisingly received a box including 22 bags, a box wrapped in paper and sweets :-)

From today I present my bags and clusters of assembled pieces - day by day :-)

Can't wait to open the 2nd bag tomorrow :-)

day 3 :-)

Day 4

Day 5

Day 6

day 7

an almost perfect match:

Day 8

Day 9

day 10

day 11

day 12

day 13

day 14

Day 15

day 16

day 17

day 18

day 19

day 20

day 21

this is almost the end ... just 1 day left ...

... and here we go

Thanks for joining my journey :-)