Putting the Xmas decs away for another year this afternoon in our attic [is it too soon?] I remembered how I used to spend hours in there selling old toys on Ebay. My old desk and chair where I had my laptop look forlorn and unused under all the junk piled on them. I loved selling on Ebay and I once even had a shop and powerseller status back in 2006 for a couple of years. I suppose I finished in 2010, when Ebay just got too much of the profits. It wasn't worth it. Maybe I'll start up again some day. Who knows. Anyways, looking through my old Ebay photies here's a few jigsaws I once found already made and laid flat in layers in an old Just Brazils christmas cholocate box [yum!]. A couple are TV shows. Do you recognise them?
I've included the game The Sorcerer's Cave as well, as it sort of related to the Mystic Wood game we featured last year. I sold a couple of examples of both of these during my Ebaying years. Do any of you still sell on Ebay or do you just buy?
The top puzzle is from the delightful Hector's House.
ReplyDeleteCan't identify the others, but am going to make a guess that the third one down is from Barnaby Bear? (Barnaby the Bear's my name; never call me Jack or James.)
Well done Toad! I knew Hectors House but not the other. having looked it up on the amazing Little Gems website you're spot on with Barnaby Bear! Check out Little Gems for yourself, talk about memory lane!
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I recognised Hector's House, the third looks familiar but could not place it, maybe because I am a "great big silly old Hector!" Ho ho...ok, I'll get me coat!
ReplyDeleteI love the idea of exploring jigsaws a bit more though...I had a lot as a kid and have looked but never found them online.
My "Wacky Races" one (cardboard) was an all time fav!
Had another one when I was really little...mice and rabbits going on a picnic on little Lambretta style scooters...ah, so so long ago now!
Wow! That's a good website, Woodsy! So much I remember with fondness. And some I've never heard of before.
ReplyDeleteI see Lizzie Dripping is there. Sigh ... if only that still existed in its entirety. I've lost count of the number of times I've read those stories.
And The Witches and the Grinnygog ... I never got to see all of that at the time. Nice it's presented as screen grabs on that site.
I think I might know that Wacky Races puzzle, eviled. Pretty sure I had it. But my favourites were a little older. One was for Top Cat, and had him and the gang climbing up the anchor chain of a large ship (and trying to escape the clutches of Office Dibble). The other was Huckleberry Hound at some kind of medieval joust.
Not sure if this counts as a "jigsaw", but as a toddler I had a puzzle made from wooden cubes. Each face had part of a different picture, so there were actually six puzzles in one. Seem to remember it came in a lovely box too, as those old toys used to.
We actually had a Basset Hound called Hector at the time of the series!
ReplyDeleteCoincidence, Steve? Or was he named after the TV star?
ReplyDeleteCourse, I knew KiKi personally ...
ReplyDeleteWe don't know if he was named after the TV star because we had him from a rescue kennel at two years old.
ReplyDeleteSad that he was there in the first place, but heart warming that he was rescued. Good on you for doing that, Steve.
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