At the same time Gibsons add several Christmas puzzles from other artists. Every year Marcello Conti adds a new limited edition puzzle to the 1000 piece range which is only available from Gibsons. Mike’s puzzles are very interesting and are a hallmark of an artist who has sold over a million puzzles through the Gibsons catalogue.Īfter Mike Jupp's vast selection, the next largest group of puzzles are Christmas jigsaw puzzles. More as of late Steve Noon, Steve Crisp and Tony Ryan have employed their charming skills in painting specific fashions and ambient information to their phenomenal puzzles. Of course someone like Mike Jupp, who could be a master of joyous disaster, when it comes to the British public having fun, is in a league all by himself. All these points of interest bring back upbeat recollections.
They possess skills for dress and design but moreover have an unerring ability in rendering cars, buses, trains and boats and indeed different beguilements and excitements indeed ice cream sellers who carried their sweets in a refrigerated box strapped onto a three wheel bike. There's no end to what they take note of and put into their astounding pictures.
They often employ the same well known craftsmen over and over such as Terry Harrison, Trevor Mitchell and Kevin Walsh who specialise in British scenes more often than not from the last century usually through to the early sixties. Gibsons jigsaws have developed a special niche within the jigsaw puzzle market place. Puzzle board is made of superior quality paper sheets that have been compressed under high pressure resulting in a dense and even quality board throughout. Obviousy taking the step from producing hand sawn wooden puzzles to the machine stamped high precision puzzles required a significant advancement in technology. Not until the 20th century was such an product available to a newly emerging consumer class with enough disposible income to be able to afford a (much less costly) pastime.A 1000 piece puzzle typically measures 68 x 49 cms. It would be completely impossible to make puzzles with the quality and size of the pieces we have today without the aid of serious machines such as precision cut dyes and presses that can exert up to two hundred tons of pressure. It would have also been all but impossible to ensure a repeating number of pieces in any puzzle.The hobby has persisted for almost three hundred years and was essentially discovered serendipitously by Jon Spilsbury in London. Due to the sawing process a great deal of sawdust would have been produced leaving pieces that did not fit very tightly and a picture that would have had details missing. Given the difficulty of manipulating an actual jigsaw, the pieces which resulted were large, unevenly shaped, and would have lacked any shape consistency. Earlier on, before machines could consistently press out thousands of identical, high quality jigsaw puzzles, handmade puzzles were the only option.
Of the various jigsaw puzzle sizes, the 1000 piece size puzzles are by far the most popular.
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