{"id":5665,"date":"2025-12-21T12:36:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T17:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/?p=5665"},"modified":"2025-12-21T12:56:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T17:56:50","slug":"a-christmas-eve-visitor-by-george-hinke-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/2025\/12\/21\/a-christmas-eve-visitor-by-george-hinke-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"A Christmas Eve Visitor, by George Hinke (Victory)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I really loved this puzzle from Victory, cut design by Mark Cappitella. George Hinke (1883 – 1953) was a mid-20th century illustrator, born in Germany, who did a lot of these Christmas \/ jolly St. Nick-style illustrations. He doesn’t have a Wikipedia entry (yet), hmm. (-: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This puzzle by Victory is thick — 7mm — and printed directly on the wood — so it has a very nice feel. 467 pieces is a good number for me. Most delightfully, it is one of their “Artisan” series, with a cut design by Mark Cappitella. It was wonderful. A lot of color-line cutting, as you can see in the whimsies below. But more than the color-line cutting, I really appreciated his cutting style, which has a lot of surprising piece conjunctions. Can I point any out? No, I can not, but multiple times, I would find myself surprised by the way pieces came together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The puzzle looks pretty cool, in that last assembly picture with everything solved except the tree …. I didn’t deliberately save the tree for last — that was just the last grouping of pieces. <\/p>\n\n\n\n