Another historic piece (pun intended) here with 13909 Antiques!
1930s Vintage Weekly Picture Puzzle Series A-4 "Lion in Sunset"
This comes from the 1930s, likely the Depression Era, from the Viking Manufacturing Company, of Boston, Massachusetts.
For a period of time, Viking was a kingpen of Jigsaw Puzzles, selling hundreds-of-thousands of them.
Anne Williams tells us in Jigsaw Puzzles: An Illustrated History and Price Guide that a map maker in England cut up a map and sold it as a game in the late eighteenth century, thus producing the first jigsaw puzzle. Chris McCann wrote the history of the Great Jigsaw Puzzle Panic of 1932-1933 which traces the popularity of this hobby in the Northeast United States. In September of 1932 Viking Manufacturing Company of Boston produced 12,000 puzzles which sold out instantly. In December they sold 200,000. In January one half million puzzles sold at newsstands for twenty five cents each. Puzzle factories sprang up to compete, adding extra shifts to meet the new demand. Six million puzzles were sold at peak. This craze quieted in March of 1933 when FDR closed the banks for two weeks and people were forced to buy only vital necessities. Today there are an estimated ten million puzzles sold each year.
We are forced to sell this "As-Is", being we haven't had the time to piece it together, and will assume all the pieces are there.
It's the Original Box, which has some wear, and tears, but is still sound.
Being it's still Winter, and snow storms still to come, this is just in time, in the event you are housebound, you can pass the hours, waiting for the cold and snow to stop, putting together this puzzle.
Whether you collect them, or just enjoy them, swing by 13909 Antiques to score this great 1930s Vintage Weekly Picture Jigsaw Puzzle Series A-4 "Lion in Sunset"
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We have a Viking picture weekly puzzle series D2, the alcalde. Is it worth anything or just sentimental value?
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