Puzzle Collection (page 2)

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

A Puzzle for Paderewski, by Bairnsfather
A Puzzle for Paderewski " Its a pity Alf ain t ere, Bert: e can play the piana wonderful" A cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander Date: 1917

Toadheaded Agamid Lizard - uses its camouflage colouring to hide - presses itself into the sand (Phrynocephalus mistaceus). sand dunes of Karakum desert - Turkmenistan - Spring - April

Collared Lemming - adult in winter fur, looks like a furry ball from its back while feeding on buds and bark of dwarf willow it digs in snow (Dicrostonyx torquatus)

Suffragette Jigsaw Puzzle Forcible Feeding
A suffragette jigsaw puzzle, based on a contemporary print, showing John Bull being fed by force. He is surrounded by a number of prominent political figures including Prime Minister Asquith

Suffragette Lord of Creation!. Puzzle which is the Lord of Creation! Suffragette towers over small man meekly carrying Votes for Women flag. She wears ribbon sash and hat in the colours. Date: 1910

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

Bystander Jigsaw By Capt. Bruce Bairnsfather
The Bystander Jigsaw by Capt. Bruce Bairnsfather. Now where does this blinkin bit go?. Puzzle picture is That Evening Star-shell. (5/5) Date: circa 1917

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

Boy With Puzzle
A young curly harried boy holding an early 16th century puzzle and smiling with obvious glee. Date: circa 1515

Business card design, young woman with hat
Business card design, depicting a puzzled young woman who has just taken a small red cloche hat out of a large yellow hat box. Date: 20th century

Northamptonshire - The Cemetery - Weedon Bec Date: circa 1904

Nipponites, uncoiled ammonoid
An uncoiled Nipponite ammonoid fossil. Ammonoids are an extinct group of marine fossil cephalopods related to todays Nautilus

The Dolly Girls and a maze

Dancers at Chateau Rouge, Paris
Dancers at the Chateau Rouge, Paris, dancing the polka. It was later made into a jigsaw puzzle -- see 10116544. Date: circa 1860s

The crabbed millionaires puzzle. Illustration shows an old man labeled Millionaire sitting in a chair atop a pile of moneybags

Puzzle picture. Illustration shows politicians Henry Gassaway Davis, William Jennings Bryan, Theodore Roosevelt, Charles W. Fairbanks, Thomas C. Platt, and Alton B

15 - 14 - 13. The great presidential puzzle. Illustration shows Senator Roscoe Conkling, leader of the Stalwarts group of the Republican Party, playing a puzzle game

Colleagues with jigsaw, Convalescent Police Seaside Home
Two young Met Police colleagues at work on a jigsaw puzzle at the Convalescent Police Seaside Home at 205 Kingsway, Hove, East Sussex

Crossword Craze - Distracted housemaid
The Crossword Craze What Lizzie was late with the lunch! A housemaid gets totally distracted trying to finish her crossword and completely forgets to do her cleaning or prepare the midday meal

Petticoat Lane Market, London - Clothes Auction. A street clothes market on Wentworth Street and Middlesex Street. Secondhand clothes

Victorian Puzzle
Victorian puzzle showing dancers in a Parisian dance hall Date: circa 1870

Boy Playing with Puzzle
A small boy playing with a puzzle. Date: circa 1960

Victorian Puzzle C1870
Victorian puzzle showing bathing beauties at the seaside Date: circa 1870

Mary Lawson as a dunce
An amusing study of Mary Lawson posed as a most alluring little dunce. Pictured here in the Sketch in 1931, she was at the time playing Professor Hinzelmanns beautiful daughter

Jumping woman at a gravel pit
A middle aged woman in a flowery dress jumping for joy, near a gravel pit. What has made her so happy is anyones guess!

A strange and mysterious creature -- answers on a postcard, please!

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

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

Man puzzling over a game of draughts
A man puzzling over a game of draughts, which he appears to be playing solo. He holds a long churchwarden pipe in his mouth. Date: early 20th century

HMS Terrible and HM Yacht jigsaw puzzle
A colour illustration of HMS Terrible, a Royal Navy armoured cruiser launched in 1895. Below is a jigsaw puzzle box of His Majestys Yacht at Cowes on the Isle of Wight

Victorian Puzzle / 1870
Victorian puzzle of some aristocratic cyclists (one piece missing)

Crossword Fever in USA
Crossword Puzzle Fever hits America - a proposal to erect huge crosswords at railway crossings to entertain travellers waiting for the train to pass

Horse Bus Scrap
This horse bus plies from Camberwell to Camden Town, passing Charing Cross and the Zoo : the advertisement for Ridges Food is written backwards to puzzle you

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