Puzzles Collection

Early jigsaw puzzle showing Kings & Queens of England
A highly instructive jigsaw puzzle from the early nineteenth century, bearing representations of the Kings and Queens of England from William I to George IV. Date: 1937

A Picture WITH Words by Chloe Preston
A studious looking little girl with spectacles balanced on her nose, sits among dictionaries as she works on countless crosswords

The Last Word by William Heath Robinson
A motorcyclist, engrossed in a crossword, fails to notice that he is driving over the edge of a cliff just as he discovers the right answer to one of the clues

A Very Cross Word Puzzle by William Heath Robinson
As a golfer manages to hit a passer by forcefully on the head with a ball, the illustrator invites the reader to fill in the crossword puzzle: " Across: A Forceful Exclamation!"

Ocean liner jigsaw puzzles including Waddington?s A Night to Remember and Victory Queen Mary

Ocean Liners - selection of jigsaw puzzles
Ocean Liners - selection of Chad Valley and other jigsaw puzzles showing the Queen Mary, QE2 and others. Date: 20th century

White Star Line, RMS Olympic and Majestic - jigsaw puzzles. Six complete, one with two pieces missing, boxed, plus a framed jigsaw puzzle. Date: 20th century

Jigsaw puzzle box lid, RMS Queen Mary in New York, USA Date: 20th century

Waterloo Railway Station, London 1883
Metropolitan Prize Puzzles, no.4, Waterloo Railway Station, London. Date: 1883

Game - The Silver Bullet or The Road to Berlin. (The New War Game - manufactured by R.F.& S.). Inscribed Olga. With love from Winifred. Aberystwyth. Puzzles & Games

Jigsaw puzzles of six WWI French battle scenes
A boxed set containing jigsaw puzzles of six First World War French battle scenes. Puzzles & Games

Game, The Silver Bullet or The Road to Berlin, WW1
Game, The Silver Bullet or The Road to Berlin (The New War Game - manufactured by R.F.& S.). Inscribed Olga. With love from Winifred. Aberystwyth

World War One pack of playing cards - Shell Motor Spirit Co
World War One pack of playing cards issued by the Shell Motor Spirit Company with Shell logo and Best Of Allies Always In the Front surrounded by images of warships, aeroplanes, tanks, etc

Tricks and Puzzles Christmas Crackers
A colour illustration Tricks and Puzzles Christmas cracker box

Frederick Alexander
DR. FREDERICK WILLIAM ALEXANDER, OBE. Depicted making anagrams & crossword puzzles in Braille for the blind, with the aid of an ordinary washing mangle

Bystander Fragments playing cards in a boxed set
A boxed set of Bystander Fragments playing cards. Edition de luxe. Linette gold edges. Manufactured & Published by Chas. Goodall & Sons for the proprietors of the Bystander. Puzzles & Games

Spy - WWI Round Card Game made by Valentines Games
Spy - The Amusing and Topical First World War Round Card Game - made by Valentines Games. Contains cutouts of German targets and card pack, with instructions and within original box. Puzzles & Games

WWI dominoes set with 55 stones and patriotic flags
A First World War dominoes set with 55 stones. The lid has patriotic flags of the period. Puzzles & Games

Jigsaw puzzles of six scenes of French children (late 19th C
A boxed set containing jigsaw puzzles of six late 19th Century scenes of French children at play. Puzzles & Games

The Bairnsfather Jig-saw Puzzle ( BYSTANDER ) - Dear. we are staying at a Farm. The Chandos Jig-saws - Series A1. Puzzles & Games

Great War oak games box with handmade cribbage lid
Great War oak games box with handmade brass cribbage board lid, inscribed Sulva Bay, August 6th, Gallipoli. Unfortunately, Suvla was mis-spelt

Trench Football Game (The Great International Game)
Trench Football Game. (The Great International Game- manufactured by R.F.& S.). Puzzles & Games - The Reverse with the rules. Date: circa 1916

Advert for Jigsaw puzzles, 1939
Advert for The London Electrotype Agency. Theres nothing like a puzzle ! To keep the children out of mischief... to amuse and entertain the convalescent

John Bull gets crossword fever
The mid-1920s crossword craze brings John Bull out in crossword fever as an epidemic of crossword puzzles hook the nation

The Next Infliction - the Cross-Word Puzzle Illustrated by W
Heath Robinsons contribution to the crossword craze of 1925, an illustrated crossword puzzle with clues included under the picture

Worthington Crosswords advertisement
An advertisement for Worthington Ales at the time of the craze for crosswords showing an engrossed crossword puzzler bumping into people and causing chaos in his wake as he walks along

The Missing Link by H. M. Bateman
An engrossed and rather obsessive crossword puzzler looks at his modest collection of dictionaries, reference books and encyclopaedias for inspiration while working in a particularly fiendish puzzle

Squaring the Dance Circles by Reginald Higgins
A stylish 1920s couple are distracted from their dancing by an engrossing crossword puzzle, all the rage in 1925. The caption reads, " A word of five letters, beginning with C

Ought and Carry On by A. Havers
A young girl puzzles over some mathematical problem using a slate

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