{"id":4786,"date":"2024-12-29T00:00:06","date_gmt":"2024-12-29T05:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/?p=4786"},"modified":"2025-11-05T00:06:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T05:06:05","slug":"butlins-clacton-on-sea-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/2024\/12\/29\/butlins-clacton-on-sea-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Butlin’s Clacton-on-Sea, Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A 250-piece puzzle from Victory in England, a vintage puzzle of swimmers \/ divers from a train company’s travel poster, “Butlin’s Clacton-on-Sea<\/a>“. (Which, according to Wikipedia, was a holiday camp operating from 1938-1983.) This is probably a public domain image; it is available here<\/a> and listed as from 1938 — the Clacton-on-Sea resort’s opening year. (update: I finally noticed the artist’s credit — Joseph Greenup, 1891-1946. More info about Greenup at mutualart.com<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Victory puzzles I did before were much thinner, and Victory has shifted some or all their puzzles to a much thicker size that I like better. And, they still have a lot of etched whimsies. The color print seemed a lot darker & muddier than the image on the box, although it doesn’t look nearly as dark in my photo below, as it looked to me trying to solve it … <\/p>\n\n\n\n