Puzzle : "Plenti - Grand "--- Pin-up Girl Puzzle

This is the latest puzzle that I finished cutting. It's a puzzle that I made using a vintage vegetable crate label. The puzzle measures 7" x 9" and has 135 pieces, contains 8 themed figurals as well as a second puzzle in puzzle. It was cut from 1/4"- 5-ply Baltic Birch plywood using Pegas puzzle cutting blades. The front and back were finished with clear lacquer, the edges were left as is so no extra clues are given to the location of the edge pieces.

I saw this label and new immediately that it would make a great puzzle. The label is a vintage vegetable crate label from the 1950's, the J. (Bud) Vukasovich Co. from Watsonville, California. This is a pin-up girl themed item that was so common back in the 1940's and 50's, pin-up girls adorned everything from calenders to airplane fuselages of that era.

After studying the label for awhile I decided to add some figurals to the puzzle to add interest, in staying with the theme of the label I used vegetables that could have been grown in California, carrot, garlic, avocado, green pepper, chili pepper, celery and corn, although corn is probably not a big crop in California; I grew up in northern Illinois and was surrounded by the stuff as a kid, the air was filled with the wonderful smell of corn in late July and August as it ripened.

The other thing that was obvious to me was that the young lady should be a big feature of the puzzle, so I made her a small puzzle within the puzzle, I didn't cut her into to many pieces as I didn't want to loose to much of the fine detail that was put into the little portrait.

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