Piecing Together the History of Jigsaw Puzzles
By Maribeth Keane
— What inspired me to collect old jigsaw puzzles? I grew up as a child with some wonderful world class puzzles in my household. They were puzzles my mother and grandmother picked up at the lending libraries in the 30s and 40s. When, libraries stopped lending puzzles, they picked up about 20 or 30 puzzles. I remember them as a boy.
Then when I got married in the 60s, we both had a love for jigsaw puzzles. So we went down to my grandparents’ house and found the puzzles that I grew up with....