Perfect jigsaw puzzles catalogue

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Perfect Puzzles has a long history. The brand emerged from the Nederlandse Legpuzzel Centrale (NLC) and later became NeLeCa. Perfect Puzzles eventually transitioned to the Vendex brand. The brand ceased to exist in the 1970s and 1980s. More

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The enclosed information, with thanks, from "GH Bekkering, Enschede, author of the book - Piece by Piece - The History of the Jigsaw Puzzle in the Netherlands".

Global history of the successive brands NLC; NeLeCa; Perfect; Vendex.

Genoveva in the forest (so Saint Genoveva) is indeed from the Dutch Legkaarten Centrale
from The Hague.
This must have started sawing and renting out (and
(sell) wooden, sawn puzzles. This puzzle is from around 1930-35
Sometimes the closing stickers have NLC mixed up, that is before the large puzzle pieces
started, so around 1932-35
The usually square (sometimes rectangular) boxes with quite large puzzle pieces on the lid (and there
glued around the bottom) are from the period approx. 1934 – 1950. Colours red yellow, blue yellow,
green yellow, green red and blue red.
There were series of (weekly?) puzzles, on the small example starting with a letter like A 00
and E 34.
If there is a K-number on the label and/or puzzle, it is the period 1942-47.
The price codes with GR are from 1945-47 (or 1950).
The truly “Dutch history” scenes point to the occupation period 1940-42, if the creator
opposition to the Germans.
Shortly after the war, the boxes with one color and white lines, usually English pictures, came
Subject: We thanked the liberators, and that included England/America.
These puzzles were also sold a lot by V&D, they are sometimes clearly called “Perfect”.
Around 1960-70 those boxes are made with a white stripe on the lid, on which the
The color sample is there. For the first time, it actually says "Perfect."
It ends around 1970-80 with Vendex Puzzles.

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Het vertrek van Pallieter (1941)