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The Lucks began their business as a cottage industry, with Kay doing most of the designing and from time-to-time the company manufactured puzzles by other designers, such as Philip Gell.\n\r\nItalian designer Enzo Mari designed this type of cluster puzzle in the late 1950s and early 1960s and Philip Gell may have been influenced by Mari’s work since the animals in both designers’ work share a lack of internal decoration, with eyes portrayed as small holes.  \n\r\nGell designed a few other puzzles for George Luck Ltd. however these didn’t sell as well as the Ark Puzzle as they were more expensive to produce and didn’t feature animals - a winning formula for best-selling puzzles, as far as the Luck’s were concerned.","physicalDescription":"Non-interlocking puzzle comprising 62 individual plywood animal pieces. The animals fit together within a symmetrical ark outline to form the shape of Noah’s Ark. 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