Jaymar Snow White "Forest Edge" & "Washtub" Puzzles

In addition to the tray puzzle seen in the earlier post, the illustration of Snow White at the Forest Edge was also produced by Jaymar as a pocket puzzle.

Images via Le Chateau Art Gallery.

...and a 100+ piece "Picture Puzzle in the Round", #3032.

Images via devildog6768.

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The Washtub illustration was issued as a pocket puzzle too.

Image via jellybean1509.

Jaymar "Snow White with Soup" Puzzles

The Soup illustration seen in the earlier post was used in an assortment of Jaymar puzzles including this 300-piece boxed edition. 14" x 22".

Images via yeoldemousehouse.

The illustration was cropped for the 1952 red border tray series. Measures 11" x 14", 35-pieces. Marked "Copyright MCMLII Jaymar Specialty Co. New York Series 2596."

Image via GS Collectibles.

The red boarder was also produced as #2379-2. Along the bottom of each puzzle reads: "Walt Disney's Productions" and "Jaymar Specialty Co, 200 Fifth Ave, New York. Made in U.S.A. 2379-2."

The same number and markings would appear again in the 4-puzzle set #2379-2, but it had a yellow boarder and red oval Jaymar logo. Set included Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse and the Three Little Pigs.

Set of four came packaged in this box.

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The Bantam Pocket Picture Puzzle, #8732.

Same pocket puzzle but cropped image.

Images via New Hampshire House of Antiques and foxxtrotrat2007.

Jaymar also produced a "Picture Puzzle in the Round" series. 100+ pieces. Measures approximately 19" across.

Round images via ItsAllOurVault.

Jaymar "Snow White with Broom" Puzzles

The four Snow White illustrations seen in the previous post were re-used for many years by the Jaymar Specialty Company. They appeared in a variety of different jigsaw designs including large boxed puzzles, inlaid trays, puzzles in the round, and mini-pocket puzzles. Here's a closer look at the "Snow White with Broom" puzzles.

This 300-piece dates from early to mid-1940s and was part of a series of war-time puzzles issued by Disney that also included Pinocchio, Bambi, Dumbo, and Silly Symphony characters. The picture measures 14" x 22" and box is 7" x 10".

Box Cover

Cover via Heritage Auctions, Interior Continental Hobby House.

One of the interesting things about this puzzle is that it contains eleven "figural" pieces, puzzle pieces shaped like objects or animals: a house, a pig, a shoe...

Figural Puzzle images via kimbazwhitelion and puzzlehistory.com.

The same 300 piece puzzle also appeared in this box. It still has the original 29¢ Woolworth price tag on it.

And a 400+ piece puzzle.

Image via fish-bonez.

In addition to being included in the set of four 1967 yellow-border tray puzzles (previous post), this illustration was also used in an earlier 1952 version. It had a red border and was marked with the Roman numerals MCMLII. Note the illustration has been cropped from that of the original above.

Image via DTR Ideas.

In conjunction with Bantam, Jaymar would produce a number of "pocket puzzles", mini-puzzles measuring 5.125" x 7" in size. The logo on side of box reads, "Bantam Pocket Picture Puzzle" and "Jaymar Walt Disney Characters." Box measures 3.687" x 5.687 " and 1.5" high.












Special thanks to collector Rick Payne for supplying additional information on these puzzles.

1967 Jaymar Puzzle Series 2732

Jaymar Specialty Company manufactured toys from the 1920s to 1990. They produced metal toys, wooden toys, toy pianos, and a variety of other child playthings including jigsaw puzzles--lots of them. The following four Snow White illustrations were used again and again over the years in a wide variety of different puzzle types.

These pictured below date from 1967 and make up the Jaymar series #2732. The four 35-piece tray puzzles were sold as a set. Each measures 14" x 11". Retail price was just 29¢.

The scenes include Snow White with the dwarfs at the forest edge...

At the washtub...

Ready for soup...

And Snow White holding a broom with the dwarfs around her...

Each puzzle in this 1967 set was framed with a yellow border (earlier editions were red). Plus all displayed the Snow White logo box with the series number 2732 and the "Jaymar Specialty Company" address.

Puzzle images via Intergalactic Trading Co, doeraemi and Tom Harris Auctions.

The set was advertised in the Merchandising Supplement of the 1967 Snow White pressbook. Note that the actual image displayed in the catalog is of an earlier "red border" puzzle that lacks the series 2732 logo box. Plus there was yet another series #3232 which was packaged in sets of two.

Puzzle Ad, 1967 Merchandising Supplement (p.9)

These same four illustrations appear repeatedly in other Jaymar puzzle designs: Snow White with Broom, Snow White with Soup, and the Forest Edge & Washtub puzzles.