Jigsaw Puzzles

John Berkey’s

JIGSAW PUZZLES

**NEW FIND**
John Berkey’s “Harvest Time” TUCO Puzzle!!

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Artist & Berkey fan GREG PRO told me he used to have one of these years ago, and he passed it onto a friend — so I knew this puzzle existed — I have looked for it and looked for it over the past 4 years, but it never showed up until March 2013…

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A Group Photo of Berkey Puzzles

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John Berkey’s 1990 Columbus Puzzles

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Assembling the “easy” parts of this 18×24″ jigsaw puzzle…
…next come the hard parts…
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…Finished! It took me a day and a half…

(Notice the nice large size of the puzzle next to a couple pocketbooks)…
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Berkey’s 2nd Columbus Puzzle:

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…and more…
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…and more of it…
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…and here’s the Box art!
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These 2 puzzles from 1990 were not on any Berkey Checklist and never posted on any other Berkey website — until I located them in 2012!

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Berkey’s Santa Stamp Puzzle

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John Berkey’s TUCO Puzzles

A super-rare John Berkey puzzle:

“A Helping Hand”

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Berkey’s “1909 Stevens-Duryea” Puzzle

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I finally finished putting the puzzle together — as I was doing it I was sure that it was missing some pieces, and I was right! It was missing 10 pieces!!! Oh well…

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“The First Thanksgiving”

A super-rare 1960’s Berkey puzzle that no one has seen in ages!

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BELOW: Notice the figure on the left that was not shown on the box art!

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This puzzle is so rare that the Berkey family didn’t even have a copy of it! I had an extra, so in February 2011 I gave it to Demi Berkey…

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Berkey’s “1911 Maxwell” Jigsaw Puzzle

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This puzzle was also printed as a 22″ round puzzle!…

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These puzzles are extremely challenging to put together…
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Berkey’s “In the Land of Cotton” Puzzle

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…and notice how the box cover didn’t show the right side of the puzzle!…
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If you know of any other Berkey puzzles, please contact me!

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