Tuco, the unicorn brand of vintage puzzles. The images are usually very generic, but these puzzles are some of my absolute favourites. It’s all in the tripl-thick cut pieces and their wacky pieces shapes. I will never tire of Tuco puzzles.
This one came to me through a friend, her partner was working during the weeks in a town called Yarmouth, basically at the Southern tip of Nova Scotia. She had gone down there to spend a week with him and explore the area last summer and one day she texted me from a shop in town. I gather that it was a used bookstore but they seem to also be the town’s source for used puzzles.
She just sent me pictures of shelves and shelves of used puzzles. Some of them contemporary releases and a good number of them were vintage. I gather that they were very reasonably priced too. I tried to keep my cool but I spotted Springboks, NorDevCo, Tuco, F.X. Schmid, I was pretty excited.
Since she has a car, she said not to worry about space and that she’d be happy to bring back as many as I wanted. So, I made my requests, I got a couple Springboks, one NorDevCo and this Tuco. I saved this one for a day that I had no plans so I could just get lost in the puzzling.
Initially, I wasn’t super excited with the image, but as it started to take shape, I came to absolutely love it. It’s so kitschy and quintessentially 70s. I love this globe with it’s heavy wooden base and the bright red carpet, very classy.
I can only hope that the globe opens up to reveal a bar set up, now that’s class!
500 pieces of perfection and complete, not a single torn piece. I was a little worried because the box has definitely seen better days, but thankfully the original owner of this puzz kept the actual puzzle in pristine condition.
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