>> I'd think Tony would know the 1967 edition, which probably looks much like this but without the photograph of the kids. <<
That's possible too.
>> Bruce might well know this or even a later edition. How old was he when [redacted to avoid needing a trigger warning]? <<
In canon, it varies over a pretty wide range. In Love Is For Children, toddler age.
>> Mass printed photography even in picture puzzles doesn't come until, mid 50s early 60s? <<
Thenabouts, I think. Evidently the press-cut versions came out in the 1930s but expense kept them from becoming really common for a while. They were more popular in the 1960s, and modern improvements have made the process much cheaper and the products much better. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jigsaw_puzzle
>> And that is why puzzles were so popular, you could see a very large picture, that gave hours of entertainment. Plenty of people swapped, so for very little you might see Carnival in Mexico, the Grand Canyon, European Castle, Hawaii... <<
Steve probably had access to some puzzles growing up, although they may well have been the older, true jigsaw puzzles. Anybody with a jigsaw could paint or even glue something on a slab of wood and cut it up. People would have tried to route him toys that he could use without overexerting himself to the point of wheezing, and it would've given him and Bucky early experience with trading for what they wanted or helping other people get some coveted item.
>> Single color printing of ephemera. Didn't have to be black, but lining up two plates cost more. Frozen food packages and breakfast cereal boxes were an exception. <<
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Date: 2014-04-13 10:12 pm (UTC)That's possible too.
>> Bruce might well know this or even a later edition. How old was he when [redacted to avoid needing a trigger warning]? <<
In canon, it varies over a pretty wide range. In Love Is For Children, toddler age.
>> Mass printed photography even in picture puzzles doesn't come until, mid 50s early 60s? <<
Thenabouts, I think. Evidently the press-cut versions came out in the 1930s but expense kept them from becoming really common for a while. They were more popular in the 1960s, and modern improvements have made the process much cheaper and the products much better.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jigsaw_puzzle
>> And that is why puzzles were so popular, you could see a very large picture, that gave hours of entertainment. Plenty of people swapped, so for very little you might see Carnival in Mexico, the Grand Canyon, European Castle, Hawaii... <<
Steve probably had access to some puzzles growing up, although they may well have been the older, true jigsaw puzzles. Anybody with a jigsaw could paint or even glue something on a slab of wood and cut it up. People would have tried to route him toys that he could use without overexerting himself to the point of wheezing, and it would've given him and Bucky early experience with trading for what they wanted or helping other people get some coveted item.
>> Single color printing of ephemera. Didn't have to be black, but lining up two plates cost more. Frozen food packages and breakfast cereal boxes were an exception. <<
True.