1000, Art, Clementoni

1000, Clementoni, Moulin Rouge, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

When I started this puzzle, I knew that there was a missing piece. It should have 999 pieces, but there were only 998 pieces. Some time ago, when this happened, I used to verify the puzzle a second time. My hope was that I had made a mistake, but the second verification gave always the same result. It was a shame, because this puzzle by Clementoni with a poster of the Moulin Rouge by Toulouse-Lautrec was very unusual. However, after buying more than 200 incomplete puzzles, it is not disappointing anymore. It's part of what we do at Rare Puzzles: being sure that we only list the complete ones. Initially, I was listing the incomplete puzzles in the online store at very low prices. However, when I decided to start the Missing Pieces replacement service, I thought it was better to keep them, put them together, and offer them for replacements. So, I have accepted the idea that I am now a puzzle enthusiast that will only assemble incomplete puzzles. Moulin Rouge: La Goulue That is the complete title of this poster by Toulouse-Lautrec. It was a color lithograph from 1891. Although they printed around 3000 copies, most of them were pasted as...

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A New Project to Complement Rare Puzzles

Today, I have started a new project: www.tupuzzle.com. Since 2015, I have been able to help a lot of puzzle fans and enthusiasts to increase their collections. I purposely avoided the expression "complete their collections" because we all know it is impossible. Hardcore puzzle fans always find new projects. In any case, I didn't leave any stone unturned in order to locate puzzles everywhere. Later, I put them all together in a single place where anyone could get them. Many people found it much easier to buy them at Rare Puzzles instead of spending their time and effort looking for them. After a long learning experience (and around 200 incomplete puzzles that their owners sold me as complete), Rare Puzzles has started to take form and consolidate, although there are still a lot of features that we need to include. If fact, it is a never ending process, but the site is improving one step at a time. It is interesting to consider how things happen sometimes, even when we had different plans. Since Rare Puzzles specializes in out of catalog puzzles, I couldn't include in the store current puzzles from different brands that are widely available in stores. If I had done...

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Legal Information Added

The website has been under maintenance for a whole week. I apologize for it. I have been writing all the legal information and i took longer than expected. There was some mandatory information that Rare Puzzles didn't include, so we were out of compliance. For that reason, I couldn't open it again until all the documentation was ready. Some parts of it were very technical and some other parts were not easy to develop. But the work is done now. These documents are legal information requirements and will appear from now on at the footer of the site. All users must know and accept them: Legal Notice. Terms & Conditions. Privacy Policy. Cookies Policy. And some more news very soon...

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