Illustrated Newspapers

This series of seven plywood puzzles featured images from the coloured pages of the papers showing on the box-lids. The lid artwork carries small pictures of the front pages of six publications of The London Electrotype Agency Ltd., 23 Fetter Lane, London, E.C. 4.

The boxes also have a list of the other titles and their associated artists printed on the inside of the box-lid. A smaller-scale colour guide picture is also included on the box-base.

The Italian artist, Fortunino Matania (1881-1963) painted the scenes featured in numbers 1-5, whilst the British artist Charles Edmund Brock (1870-1938), provided the image for number 6 and Willem van de Velde the Younger (Dutch painter, 1633-1707), that of number 7.
They were produced in the era 1935-1937.