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Identifying the box codes
These nav bars divide all the puzzles into six general catagories. - - - - - Within each
you'll find the applicable box codes covering the category you selected.
Here is the small perfect screen... - - - - - Similiar box covers are grouped together
with notes showing the differences.
To see additional box info, click on the box cover pic... - - - - -
For an alphabetical listing of titles within a box code click on the yellow bar for that box code.
Here is an example of one of the additional info pages... - - - - -
It could show box flaps, bond stamp placement color differences - anything pertinent.
Alphabetical listings for each box code also show the box colors and an example for reference.
(see box color study for why we show box colors)
On the numbered puzzle box codes, the listings are in alphabetical order and in numerical order
(no box color is shown for numbered puzzles)
checking the box covers
This page will take a few moments to load as there are a lot of different boxes here.
(once it is all loaded, returning will reload a lot quicker)
Select the box code you want to view, noting that some of them are subdivided because of the number of boxes in
that box code
On the individual box cover pages, there is a space for each known title and a picture of each
available box cover. - - - - - Some box covers have been found in different colors within the same box code, and this is shown or noted at the bottom of the affected pages. - - - - -
Version numbers are shown after any applicable title and indicate that the title has 2 or more different pictures within the Perfect Picture family.
(read about versions in a seperate section)
pictures of completed puzzles
Puzzle pictures have been grouped into galleries of somewhat related subjects....
And since my choices of which gallery to put any particular picture in may differ from yours, making it hard to
find, I've added a list to help. This clipboard icon is at the bottom of gallery selections....
Within each gallery, the pictures are alphabetized & grouped according to horiz or vert orientation - - - - -
Versions are shown were appropriate - - - - - And artists are identified when known. - - - - - Click on a picture and a new window will open, showing a larger version of that picture.
these galleries are incomplete and currently show only a portion of the available puzzles.
The completed puzzle pictures for the Perfect Double puzzles can be viewed by going
to the appropriate box cover picture gallery and clicking on a box cover pic... the puzzle picture will open in a new window.
Note: not all puzzle pictures currently available
miscellanea
mis-cel-la-nean .pl : a collection of miscellaneous writings or notes
Some very useful information can be found here. all lists are correlated to each other
box color study why we are so
interested in colors & what they can mean to us
alphabetical listing covers all
known titles and shows all applicable box codes
differently named pictures
the same picture can have several different names
versions the same name can be many
different pictures
copyright data lists when and who
held the copyright on the pictures (still in work)
dating boxes shows the
span of time the various boxes were produced
count
shows how many of each box code has been found to date
lithographers
the printing companies who made the pictures (still in work)
hardcopy listings download listings to
print your own copies
minutia
mi-nu-tian.
:a minute or precise detail : a minor particular : a petty matter : a small thing
Here you'll find a gathering of small facts in several areas of interest that you may find
usefull and interesting
die cuts shows the different cuts for
various box codes along with a piece count & pithy comments
repairs shows some tools and
methods for making minor repairs
signatures examples of some of the
artist's signatures
box inserts
old advertisments that came in most of the earlier boxes
anomalies somewhat unique and
out-of-the-ordinary things
a more graphic system to identify box codes (used before I found Chris' system)
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