Watching and Waiting

I met a couple at the last Curio Collective Vintage show that I was selling puzzles at, who contacted me after the show with a whole load of vintage puzzles to pass on to me. I assembled one a few months ago – Pike action from Somerville Games. This one is also from Somerville and it features two hunting dogs that seem to have spotted something in the tall grass!

I really liked this puzzle, the cut was a little challenging so it made the actual puzzling just a little more engaging! I also love the colour palette of this picture, the sky and the golden autumnal grass, it’s great composition!

The box art is also amazing! I just love that many of these older Somerville puzzles drew a frame and added so much nice detail and cool text on their boxes. It just makes these puzzles so special.

When I was a little kid, my Oma had a German Shorthair Pointer, his name was Atlas. I don’t remember all that much because I was pretty young, but I do remember walking with Oma and him along the Canal in St. Catherine’s where she lived at the time. I used to spend a bulk of my summers there with family until I was about 9 or 10, I’d say and Oma moved to Vancouver soon after to be closer to us.

This puzzle is definitely old, but I couldn’t say exactly how old it is. It was sadly missing two pieces, but still worth assembling and walking down memory lane with Atlas, the German Shorthair Pointer!