I was looking forward to doing this puzzle- it was this image that caught my eye on the box and made me pick that collection up at the thrift store in the first place. Even though the picture is striking, I knew it would be one of the more difficult puzzles to do- being mostly just a few color hues, a lot of dark indistinct background, etc. I was pleased to see upon assembling the boarder that the fox didn’t have any edges cropped off, but then dismayed at the physical quality of this puzzle. The surface, to be precise. It had a very grimy feel, bothersome enough that I wore plastic glove fingers. The whole puzzle seemed to have a yellowish overcast, and there were splatter marks on some pieces that I could actually scrape off, a dull pale yellowish color. It appeared to me that some -protective?- film had been sprayed on the puzzle, and the job was done sloppy. It just made the whole puzzling experience with this one a bit unpleasant, in a way I tried to ignore.
Also it is overall poorly made- thin, flimsy pieces. Boring ribbon cut with only one piece shape. And then one piece missing in the end.
Final size 18 x 11″.
