Another puzzle from Victory, more difficult than the San Francisco TWA travel poster I did previously … I really enjoyed the Art Deco / jazz age style cuttings. Unfortunately, a couple of the whimsies were so fragile that they had been snapped before they even got to me from Hoefnagel.
No tags for this post.250 wooden pieces / 340x265x5mm (approx. 13x10x0.25″) / 20+ Whimsies. Packaged in a cotton drawstring bag inside of a sturdy, square two part box. Artist: F.X. Leyendecker, 1922. Cut Design: Aidan Knowles, 2022. This delightful 250 piece puzzle features a unique art-deco cut pattern and contains over 20 whimsy pieces, many of them multipart! We chose this beautiful image because it was created for Life Magazine in 1922, around the same year that Gerald Hayter declared ‘Victory’ as the brand name for his wooden puzzles. It’s a signature puzzle for us and features many cool whimsies of objects that were common or invented around that time. Frank Xavier Leyendecker was an American. He worked with his brother J.C. (the more famous Leyendecker) in their studio, first in Chicago then later in New York City and New Rochelle, New York. He studied for a time at the Académie Julian in France. He was known for his stained glass work as well as his illustrations for magazines and advertisements.
