Puzzle Collection

Monkey puzzle tree, Araucaria araucana. Endangered
Monkey puzzle tree, Araucaria araucana (Araucaria imbricata). Endangered. Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaires Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe

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

Alexander & Gordian Knot
ALEXANDER THE GREAT When in Gordium, Phrygia in 333 BC, Alexander cuts the Gordian knot with his sword, bluntly solving the puzzle

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

Doing the Crossword / 1925
The thinker, ponders a crossword clue

Monkey Puzzle Tree, Araucaria Imbricata Pavon. 1868

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!"

Brer Rabbit puzzle page

Wedding party on bicycles
A French wedding party on bicycles, all dressed in their best clothes. It was later made into a jigsaw puzzle -- see 10116545. Date: circa 1860s

Mortar Calculations - Fort Wright - Fishers Island, New York
Directing the range of the Mortars - Fort Wright - Fishers Island - New York, USA. Military Cadets using complex higher mathematical formulae and telephone instructions to work out the exact aiming

Crossword by Lamplight
Three children do a crossword by lamp light

Two-headed camel? Birqash Camel Market near Cairo, Egypt. This image is a genuine photograph and is NOT faked Date: 2010

A picture puzzle magic lantern slide, Victorian period

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

Ocean Liners - selection of jigsaw puzzles and books. Victory plywood jigsaw puzzle of RMS Queen Mary. Victory plywood jigsaw puzzle of Southampton Docks, aerial view featuring Olympic, Majestic

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

Victory jigsaw puzzle, Queen Mary
Victory jigsaw puzzle, Cunard White Star liner, Queen Mary

Victory jigsaw puzzle, Empress of Britain
Victory jigsaw puzzle, new liner, Empress of Britain

Jigsaw puzzle box lid, New York Harbour with ship, USA
Victory 125 piece jigsaw puzzle of New York Harbour with cruise liner in the foreground, box lid

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

Caricature illustration by W Heath Robinson. Showing angry man being hit by golf ball in foreground, woman with finger in her ear, two golfers in background looking

Regency designs for wooden chin pieces for falling animals
Regency designs for wooden chin pieces to protect animals when they fall, and to keep away boring Christians. The Puzzle for the Dog, The Puzzle for the Horse, The Puzzle for Turk, Frenchman, or

Regency horse rider about to crash into a stage coach
Regency rider with cudgel on a dray horse about to crash into a stage coach. Coach driver and publican rolling beer barrels outside the Golden Lantern pub watch in horror. One Way to Stop Your Horse

Cartoon, Clapham Junction Station, SW London
Cartoon, Metropolitan Prize Puzzles No.6, underground passage at Clapham Junction Station, SW London - a passenger can t remember which stairs to take

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

Unknown British town scene - with Monkey Puzzle tree. An interesting early photograph of Araucaria Arucana (Monkey Puzzle Tree) which is very slow-growing

Pot a surprise or puzzle jug from Savignies, Oise, France, with handles and hidden spout. Hand-finished chromolithograph from Ris Paquots General History of Ancient French and Foreign Glazed Pottery

Female seed cone of the monkey puzzle tree
Mature female seed cone of the monkey puzzle tree, Araucaria araucana (Araucaria imbricata). Endangered. Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaires Flowers of the Gardens

Block puzzle with French battle scene, WW1
Block puzzle with French battle scene, First World War. 1914-1918

Cartoon, Metropolitan Prize Puzzles No. 2 -- dismay on the faces of the market stall sellers as a horse and cart trample all over the baskets of veg. 1883

Cartoon, Metropolitan Prize Puzzles No. 1 -- traffic at Marble Arch, Central London, before the introduction of the Congestion Charge. Date: 1883

FALL / BICHON FRISE / 1990
CHAMPOIN SULYKA PUZZLE Owned by Dunger. Date: 1990

Mr Tingle puzzled farmer
An elderly farmer removes his cloth cap and scratches his head in bewilderment as he looks at the camera at a sheep sale in Abergavenny Market, Wales, UK. His name was Mr Tingle Date: circa 1970

Anti-German cartoon, map of Europe, WW1
The tailors of strafe street. An anti-German cartoon showing the German Kaiser Wilhelm II and his son, Crown Prince Wilhelm, in a tailors shop during the First World War

Flat Earth Puzzle
The Puzzled Cleric - torn between his faith and science - how can he reconcile what God (via the Bible) tells him and what the scientists tell him about the Earth ? Date: 1895

Baby and boots puzzle on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Comic pictogram on a Christmas and New Year card
Comic pictogram with a puzzle about family relationships on a Christmas and New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Crossword puzzle on a birthday card - solved. (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Nipponites mirabilis, ammonite
This ammonite from the Upper Cretaceous of Japan displays a loose, tangled coil

Daily Chronicle newspaper activity for children
Daily Chronicle national newspaper, activity for children, a puzzle game involving colouring in large letters. Probably at a seaside venue during summer holidays. Date: circa 1920

Cartoon, Charles Bradlaugh, atheist MP
Cartoon, Charles Bradlaugh (1833-1891), atheist politician, Liberal MP for Northampton. The lawyers (described here as The Three Wise Men of Madagascar) puzzle over how to deal with him. 1884

The Big Top Jig-Saw Puzzle, with circus clown and dog. 20th century

Victorian Jigsaw / 1870
Victorian puzzle of some racegoers stepping out of their carriages Date: circa 1870

Finding Station Name
Railway Puzzle To find the name of the station among the many bill- boards Date: 1883

Betrothal rings 1912
Betrothal, puzzle, posy and true-love rings were usual worn on the third finger. The ring symbolizing a circle implying our repects (or regards)

Mother and children on a jigsaw puzzle
Mother and children at a table on a jigsaw puzzle -- the pieces are square shaped. Date: circa 1890s

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