RaphaelOue
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Date of Birth

October 22, 1981 (42)

About RaphaelOue

Biography:

The jigsaw puzzle is amongst the oldest types of entertainment and
dates back towards the late 1700s. The jigsaw has
passed through many stages of improvement to become today's modern day pastime.

Jigsaw puzzles possess a range of utilizes, from entertainment to education to physical and emotional
therapy.

A Beginning as an Educational Tool The forerunner in the
contemporary jigsaw puzzle was invented in 1767 by John Spilsbury as
a teaching device to help children to discover the geography of England and Wales.
It was a wooden map with no interlocking pieces.
In fact, interlocking pieces weren't introduced to jigsaws until much
later, with the invention of saws that could cut with the accuracy required to generate
the interlock. From this inauspicious beginning through the 1800s, jigsaw puzzles caught
on and grew as a well-liked pastime.

Jigsaws: The New Preferred Parlor Game By the early 1900s the
jigsaw puzzle became all of the rage with adults in each
the US and also the UK. As a result of the cost of producing these wooden puzzles, they had been primarily the domain of the wealthy, and jigsaw puzzles started to rival
bridge and lawn bowling as parlor games. As puzzling grew, major game companies, such as Parker Brothers and Milton Bradley started to generate jigsaw puzzles.



Introduction of Shaped and Interlocking Pieces The reputation of jigsaws inside the initial decade from the 1900s lead Parker
Brothers to begin to create puzzles with interlocking and shaped pieces.
Also about this exact same time cardboard jigsaws started to be produced by
way of die-cutting. Most companies, nonetheless, stuck with producing wooden puzzles, as the common belief was that
there was no marketplace for low-cost, cardboard puzzles.


Depression-Era Development of Jigsaws With all the advent of the Fantastic Depression,
demand for inexpensive cardboard, die-cut puzzles exploded.

Families found that jigsawing was not merely entertaining, but a great
diversion in the stresses of life. Also, once total, a jigsaw puzzle could be traded with a pal, continuing the trend of low-cost entertainment.


A Increase from Advertising At this time, businesses also
started making use of puzzles for promotional giveaways
with several stores providing a puzzle using a obtain. In the height of the
depression, inside the early 1930s, the "Jig of the Week" was introduced and sold at
newsstands. Numerous series became accessible and getting the first to
assemble that week's puzzle resulted in bragging rights for the
solver. Financial woes and the rise in reputation of affordable puzzles took its
toll around the wooden puzzle makers, although some retained a loyal following.


Introduction of the Personalized Jigsaw Through the rise of cardboard puzzles a new manufacturer, Par Puzzles, came into popularity.
These hand-cut, finely crafted puzzles were produced by brothers who catered
for the affluent, which includes movie stars and royalty.

Par's claim to fame was personalized puzzles, often cut with their
owner's names as pieces.

Today's Jigsaw Puzzles Because the height of reputation during the depression, fascination with all the jigsaw puzzle has ebbed and
flowed. Right after World War II rising wages resulted
in greater expense and reduced sales of wooden jigsaw puzzles.
At this exact same time, improvements in printing
and reproduction of fine art on jigsaws resulted in elevated sales of cardboard puzzled.
Right now, most puzzles are cardboard, but you will find a handful of manufacturers still creating high-quality,
wooden jigsaw puzzles. A variety of puzzles are now available, from irregularly shaped puzzles, to
doubled-sided jigsaws to 3D jigsaws. They continue to fascinate us and offer a way to bring
folks together with the common aim of getting the
one who puts in that last piece.

Location:

Rosmalen

Interests:

Vintage clothing, Dance

Occupation:

Material moving occupation