Liberty, 475 pieces. It's interesting to see a puzzlemaker evolve, but early work from a known quantity can also be illuminating. This is an earlier Liberty, and it shows in a lot of ways: the eagle hasn't achieved its now-standard form. The whimsies have lots of small-toothed edges in a way that might have seemed like a way of demonstrating the potentials of laser cutting, but that I don't enjoy as much as the present style. There are a few abstract shapes that I haven't seen again. In general, this seems to have been designed so that the pieces would look as much like hand-cut as possible, while I would say that current Liberty puzzles have instead embraced the special affordances of laser cutting, to their benefit. 3/5
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| Some representative whimsies--the geometric shapes look more like they're imitating hand-cut |
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