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  • Lorenzo the magnificent (detail from the Cavalcade) WendyHarris1955
    WendyHarris1955 posted a photo: Waddington stock no. 548 Β© 1972 card 450 pieces 53 x 43 cm 21 x 17 in This is the third time* we've assembled a puzzle featuring a detail from a series of three frescoes housed in the Magi Chapel of the Medici Palace, Florence, painted by Benozzo Gozzoli (1420/1-1497). Each puzzle has centred around the figure of Lorenzo the Magnificent, representing Caspar. Other Medici family members appear in the frescoes, but I've not seen any of them used as jigsaw puzzl
     

Lorenzo the magnificent (detail from the Cavalcade)

WendyHarris1955 posted a photo:

Lorenzo the magnificent (detail from the Cavalcade)

Waddington
stock no. 548
Β© 1972
card
450 pieces
53 x 43 cm
21 x 17 in

This is the third time* we've assembled a puzzle featuring a detail from a series of three frescoes housed in the Magi Chapel of the Medici Palace, Florence, painted by Benozzo Gozzoli (1420/1-1497).
Each puzzle has centred around the figure of Lorenzo the Magnificent, representing Caspar. Other Medici family members appear in the frescoes, but I've not seen any of them used as jigsaw puzzles.
A wonderful vintage (1972) Waddington puzzle on Qualitex board, in superb condition and complete.

*The others are: Art Puzzle 540pcs, possibly one of the many Ricordi incarnations, and Museums & Galleries Marketing Ltd 500 pcs.

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  • 20260322-MECCANO 001-NB003-2K Manuel Gual
    Manuel Gual posted a photo: Vintage Meccano Workshop: Mechanical Dreams in Brass and Steel Description: A detailed visual collection inspired by classic Meccano engineering, captured inside a warm vintage workshop filled with metal strips, brass gears, pulleys, axles, wheels, tools, blueprints, cranes, bridges, clockwork mechanisms, model vehicles and carefully organized construction parts. The series celebrates the beauty of mechanical imagination, precision assembly, old workshop craftsma
     

20260322-MECCANO 001-NB003-2K

Manuel Gual posted a photo:

20260322-MECCANO 001-NB003-2K

Vintage Meccano Workshop: Mechanical Dreams in Brass and Steel

Description:
A detailed visual collection inspired by classic Meccano engineering, captured inside a warm vintage workshop filled with metal strips, brass gears, pulleys, axles, wheels, tools, blueprints, cranes, bridges, clockwork mechanisms, model vehicles and carefully organized construction parts. The series celebrates the beauty of mechanical imagination, precision assembly, old workshop craftsmanship and the nostalgic charm of hands-on model engineering. Each scene evokes the atmosphere of an inventor’s bench, where miniature machines, structural frames and experimental mechanisms come together like a tribute to industrial design, educational toys and timeless creative tinkering. These images have been generated by Artificial Intelligence.

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