{"id":5050,"date":"2025-03-22T18:51:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T22:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/?p=5050"},"modified":"2025-08-31T16:33:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T20:33:50","slug":"victory-original-gay-harbour-cornwall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/2025\/03\/22\/victory-original-gay-harbour-cornwall\/","title":{"rendered":"Victory (original), “Gay Harbour, Cornwall”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I think I can call these boats, right? not ships? From the Hoefnagel<\/a> collection. This is a “Victory Puzzle”, from the original UK company of that name, from the 1950s, with about 350 pieces per Hoefnagel. Hoefnagel description: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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350 pieces, hand-cut, irregular connectors. Victory Plywood Jig-saw Puzzles were made in the 1950s in England and this is a vintage puzzle from that era. The picture looks a lot like this photo, but is a bit different and more faded. Please be careful- very fragile<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

UPDATE 2025\/08\/31 – Hey, look at that — I just did a different Victory puzzle (the new Victory) and was updating my files to clarify the distinction b\/w original Victory Puzzles & modern Victory Puzzles, and I randomly decided to google to see if I could identify an artist for this one — and I did! Donald Grieg, 1916-2009, from this auction site<\/a> for this image!

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I think I can call these boats, right? not ships? From the Hoefnagel collection. This is a “Victory Puzzle”, from the original UK company of that name, from the 1950s, with about 350 pieces per Hoefnagel. Hoefnagel description: 350 pieces, hand-cut, irregular connectors. Victory Plywood Jig-saw Puzzles were made in the 1950s in England and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,613],"tags":[],"artists":[704],"puzzling":[654,200,371],"makers":[],"features":[8],"subjects":[494,154],"class_list":["post-5050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-completed","category-wooden-handcut","artists-donald-grieg","puzzling-654","puzzling-hoefnagel-puzzle-club","puzzling-lq","features-wooden","subjects-boats-and-ships","subjects-water"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/PXL_20250322_235933789-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5050"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5288,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5050\/revisions\/5288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5050"},{"taxonomy":"artists","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artists?post=5050"},{"taxonomy":"puzzling","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/puzzling?post=5050"},{"taxonomy":"makers","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/makers?post=5050"},{"taxonomy":"features","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/features?post=5050"},{"taxonomy":"subjects","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subjects?post=5050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}