Vintage Main Street Puzzle

The Vintage Main Street Puzzle brings a new retro theme to celebrate Christmas.  The Artist managed to capture a wonderful combination colors and details that's quite outstanding for attraction to puzzlers.

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Brand: Cobble Hill Puzzle Company Title: Vintage Main Street Puzzle Artist: Diane Dempsey Pieces: 1000 Size: 48.9 x 67.6cm or 19.25 x 26.625″
Brand: Cobble Hill Puzzle Company Title: Vintage Main Street Puzzle Artist: Diane Dempsey Pieces: 1000 Size: 48.9 x 67.6cm or 19.25 x 26.625″


Brand: Cobble Hill Puzzle Company

Title:  Vintage Main Street Puzzle

Artist: Diane Dempsey

Pieces: 1000

Size:  48.9 x 67.6cm or 19.25 x 26.625″

Vintage Main Street Puzzle Review

Overall Experience:  Great

Cut Quality: Great

Board Quality: Firm

Shape Cut: random

Image Quality: Great

Hardest Area: The 2 vehicles

Puzzle Dust? minimal

Finish Quality: Smooth matte

Box Quality: Good and solid

Sealed Pieces Inside Box: no

Was this purchased new? no

Price: Picked for review

Recommend Level: Highly 

Time: 10 hours

Vintage Main Street Puzzle Assembly

I have switched up from using foam boards for sorting. Since I have established that the Grateful House jigsaw puzzling trays can hold a 1000 piece puzzle laid out, (using the lid for the border pieces) I find it convenient to layout my sorting process as shown in the images. I set up the 8 trays plus the lid and the box of puzzle pieces in the centre to sort according to colours or details. I do the border on my foam board working area first so I can put the lid on the trays for movement.

Brand: Cobble Hill Puzzle Company Title: Vintage Main Street Puzzle Artist: Diane Dempsey Pieces: 1000 Size: 48.9 x 67.6cm or 19.25 x 26.625″
Brand: Cobble Hill Puzzle Company Title: Vintage Main Street Puzzle Artist: Diane Dempsey Pieces: 1000 Size: 48.9 x 67.6cm or 19.25 x 26.625″

These puzzles come with a very nice quality poster as you can see in the image below and shown with the border completed below.

Brand: Cobble Hill Puzzle Company Title: Vintage Main Street Puzzle Artist: Diane Dempsey Pieces: 1000 Size: 48.9 x 67.6cm or 19.25 x 26.625″

Using the Poster to assist with the border, it assembled quite quickly. The upper sky and the road on the bottom were fairly easy to distinguish. Then the radish colour along the left side, made the right side easy to arrange the pieces into those directions.

Brand: Cobble Hill Puzzle Company Title: Vintage Main Street Puzzle Artist: Diane Dempsey Pieces: 1000 Size: 48.9 x 67.6cm or 19.25 x 26.625″

I started off with the light soft greens and the bigger store names to help identify areas that could be easily be assembled. The sun and Santa was a given ;)

Brand: Cobble Hill Puzzle Company Title: Vintage Main Street Puzzle Artist: Diane Dempsey Pieces: 1000 Size: 48.9 x 67.6cm or 19.25 x 26.625″

I continued to gather little pockets of color to put clusters of details together.  There was enough detail to get about two-thirds of the puzzle assembled which left the tricky areas being the two vehicles.  They were done last but they were not too difficult once I looked closer at the details.

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Vintage Main Street Puzzle Comments

I seemed to get through this one faster than I thought I might.  I really do LOVE assembling Christmas jigsaw puzzles and have several completed by different Brands. One of my most favourite Christmas puzzles is by Cobble Hill puzzles too and it's titled Holiday Candy  - it sure was challenging to assemble and I do put it on my wall every Christmas as a form of decorations. 

I am very lucky to review jigsaw puzzles for Cobble Hill so imagine how happy I was to have the opportunity to assemble the  Christmas Camper by Diane Dempsey too. You can see my review here.

I also want to mention how nice the matte finish is on the Cobble Hill puzzles. They are non glare images and they feel so nice when my hands do the 'once-over' upon completion of the puzzles. You can see the nice random cut and quality in the close up images below.

Brand: Cobble Hill Puzzle Company Title: Vintage Main Street Puzzle Artist: Diane Dempsey Pieces: 1000 Size: 48.9 x 67.6cm or 19.25 x 26.625″
Brand: Cobble Hill Puzzle Company Title: Vintage Main Street Puzzle Artist: Diane Dempsey Pieces: 1000 Size: 48.9 x 67.6cm or 19.25 x 26.625″
Brand: Cobble Hill Puzzle Company Title: Vintage Main Street Puzzle Artist: Diane Dempsey Pieces: 1000 Size: 48.9 x 67.6cm or 19.25 x 26.625″
Brand: Cobble Hill Puzzle Company Title: Vintage Main Street Puzzle Artist: Diane Dempsey Pieces: 1000 Size: 48.9 x 67.6cm or 19.25 x 26.625″

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