On the other hand, this is still only a 200 piece puzzle so I didn’t expect it to be very difficult to assemble.
#Goodtask reminder vs task series#
As I understood it, the company assigned their most skillful cutters to this series and paid a higher piece-rate for each complete puzzle. Because this is from Victory’s highest-priced Super-Cut series I knew that the company used better materials for its Super-Cut series and I could expect it to have colour-line cutting and other cutting features that made it a trickier than other Victory puzzles to assemble. My expectations were pretty high even though this is only a 200 piece puzzle. The name – A Good Catch – reminded me that it had fishermen beach near a boat that had been pulled up on a beach. As was typical at the time for higher quality adult puzzles, this box has no picture, and I helped by doing a very good job of forgetting the image of the completed puzzle that I saw when I bought it from an eBay auction. This puzzle is the closest that I’ve come to date in replicating that experience. They believed – STRONGLY – that part of the enjoyment of assembly came from slowly discovering what the image would be. Throughout the company’s 70 or so year’s existence it stayed with the practice of selling and packaging its better-quality adult jigsaw puzzles without reference images.
In its day it became the largest and the longest-lived one of them all. Hayter & Company LTD, one of the earliest British companies that made wooden jigsaw puzzles in a factory manufacturing format. “Victory” brand wooden jigsaw puzzles were made by G.J. Instead of including a photo of the completed puzzle at the beginning I am going to let you see the image develop the way that I experience it during assembly.
My current plan is to post the history of the company as a stand-alone essay sometime fairly soon, and I’ll re-publish the stories about the other two Victory puzzles someday, but I’m not setting myself any deadline for myself.Īlso, in this posting I am trying out a change from past practice. So here are the reviews of the two Victory puzzles that I just completed.
#Goodtask reminder vs task free#
Well, these new reviews of Victory puzzles are complete, the other writing that I planned to have precede them isn’t, and want to free up my puzzle-boards NOW(!) so I can get back to assembling puzzles.Īfter a long career as a policy analyst I know that policies can be changed, and that exceptions should be made if circumstances warrant. This policy gives me an incentive to finish the writing while the memory is still fresh and it also keeps the puzzle available in case I want additional photos. I have a self-imposed policy to keep an assembled jigsaw on my puzzle-board until I have written the review-essay about it. That was instrumental in inspiring me to start this Bill’s Wooden Jigsaw Puzzles project as a better venue for my long-form reports.īut the essay about the company has turned out to be a much more time-consuming task than I expected, partly because I had the discouraging experience of having a large part of the text that I had written vanish (probably by getting distracted while doing a cut ‘n’ paste to move the text.) Also, I haven’t really begun to prepare the re-publication of my reports of those other two Victory puzzles yet. I wrote long reports about them in the Facebook Wooden Puzzle Club group. Those were the puzzles that got me started in researching things related to my puzzles, and they both turned out to have very interesting back-stories. Hayter company who made the “Victory” brand of puzzles before posting these reviews, and with it, to re-publish my reports about two Victory puzzles that I assembled before starting this newsletter/blog project. My original plan was to publish an essay about the history of the G.J. They still sell as “collectables” but often for very reasonable prices. Because they were made by anonymous factory workers, and aimed primarily for common folk and the middle-class, they attract less attention from collectors than the ones that were custom made for wealthy customers. Because they were widely available and were made in comparatively large quantities, Victory puzzles are the most common brand to be offered for sale on the internet. Hayter & Company, the world’s largest maker of hand-cut jigsaw puzzles over a period of several decades. English “Victory” brand puzzles were made by G.J.