MAPS

October 26th, 2016

Title: World Map, 1630

Manufacturer:  Pomegranate

Pieces:  1000

Movie:  Unknown 

If there's one thing I love more than puzzles, its maps.  I love looking at maps, any maps.  I love looking at Googlemaps, city maps, bus route maps, hand drawn maps on a napkin, whatever.  Show me a map and I'll spend some time studying it.  Naturally, doing a map jigsaw puzzle was pretty fun for me, and a handful more will be popping up later.  Some, like this one, are fairly easy, but some of them are surprisingly difficult.

The company that made this puzzle is called Pomegranate.  The only reason to bring this up is because, as of right now, this is the only Pomegranate puzzle I have done.  Not that there was anything I didn't like about it, but it seems like they mostly do puzzles of paintings and other artwork (like this old map).  For the most part, I usually stick pictures of the natural world.  Castles, boats, houses, mountains is my usual endeavor, with a few exceptions.

Returning to the topic of how I recovered the pertinent information about puzzle, there's basically two ways I've been able to figure out who the puzzle manufacturer was: finding it online, or, more commonly, finding the puzzle again at a thrift store.  My basic routine is to go to a thrift store, buy a puzzle, do a puzzle, then donate back to a thrift store.  I'm guessing others have this same routine since I will find old puzzles at a different store than I left them.  I'm sure some of them where just another copy of the same puzzle, but mostly they are old enough that I'm certain they are the same one.




This is the first puzzle with no movie associated with it.  I'm sure I watched something, because I always watch something, but it's just gonna have to stand on its own.  But it can, since it's a pretty cool old map.