SOCIAL historian, collector and creator of the Museum of Brands, Robert Opie, still has and remembers with fondness his first jigsaw.
“It was circular and made by Waddingtons in 1953 to celebrate the queen’s coronation. We would get it out every Christmas for the whole family to play with and it exactly fitted a little circular table – it was a tricky jigsaw with no straight bits.”
Examples from Opie’s 2000-strong jigsaw collection are the focus of 250 Years of Jigsaws, an exhibition at the museum in Notting Hill, London, which runs until the end of April.