Thrifted this very cute 1997 puzzle featuring art of a town I've visited in the state. I'm a big fan of this art style in general for puzzles, so even though it was taped shut I knew I wanted to take a chance on it.
Well I was surprised a bit to find that inside almost the entire puzzle had been left completely together! Usually someone might leave some pieces together but rarely is it left stacked like this for a donation find.
Took advantage of that to check if all the pieces were there, and it only took me about 7 minutes to mend the extra pieces between each chunk. Woo hoo!!! All pieces!!!
But I also figured out why they left it:
It took me 30 minutes to take this thing apart!
The pieces are so thick and nice and snapped together so well, so when you picked it up, the puzzle was quite solid. You could have thrown it like a frizbee and it would have held together I bet!
I could've probably rushed it a bit more than I did but I would have risked damaging some of the paper or cardboard doing that, so I just took it apart one by one.
But look how beautiful these are!!! So lovely and thick, and the image is really bright too! I know the color of my photos aren't great because it was night when I was doing this, but I really think this will be a permanent collection puzzle for me.
I'll do the full puzzle on my own later and list puzzle info when I have more time to look it all up, but for now I'm very happy with this find! Kinda wanna plan a day to drive here and see if I can do the puzzle at the location and take pictures of it in the town, especially since it holds together so well.