{"id":433,"date":"2023-05-20T15:36:44","date_gmt":"2023-05-20T15:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ephemeralnewfoundland.com\/?p=433"},"modified":"2023-05-20T15:36:44","modified_gmt":"2023-05-20T15:36:44","slug":"puzzles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ephemeralnewfoundland.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/20\/puzzles\/","title":{"rendered":"Puzzles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

These are postcards from the novelty category – picture puzzles – the sender would write out the back, then break the pieces apart and put in the envelope for mailing. These are 2 examples – the black is originally from the Beck Collection.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wood block puzzles were very popular in the end of the 1800’s. This is a 9-piece puzzle with 6 different images.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Appearing later than wood block puzzles, puzzles printed on cardboard were popular children’s toys.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is a six-sided 20 piece wood block puzzle in a wooden box with a lid that lifts off.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is an example of a puzzle card that was included as a “premium”, this one was inserted in the Boston Globe. The pieces were meant to be cut apart and assembled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A last example of a wood block puzzle, this time in a hinged box, this one with 48 pieces.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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These are postcards from the novelty category – picture puzzles – the sender would write out the back, then break the pieces apart and put in the envelope for mailing. These are 2 examples – the black is originally from the Beck Collection.\u00a0 Wood block puzzles were very popular in the end of the 1800’s. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-toys","category-puzzles"],"wbAuthor":{"name":"marylou","link":"https:\/\/www.ephemeralnewfoundland.com\/index.php\/author\/marylou\/"},"wbDate":"May 20, 2023","wbCategories":{"space":"Books and Toys<\/a> puzzles<\/a>","coma":"Books and Toys<\/a>, puzzles<\/a>"},"wbComment":154,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ephemeralnewfoundland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ephemeralnewfoundland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ephemeralnewfoundland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ephemeralnewfoundland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ephemeralnewfoundland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ephemeralnewfoundland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":434,"href":"https:\/\/www.ephemeralnewfoundland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions\/434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ephemeralnewfoundland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ephemeralnewfoundland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ephemeralnewfoundland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}