Evidently this whole puzzle craze started around 1790 when a London map maker mounted a map on a sheet of hardwood and then, using a fine thin saw, cut around the boundaries of the counties. A picture was adhered to a wood board and then dissected. This, of course, is not technically a “jig-saw” puzzle because the pieces were probably cut by a fretsaw, but the theory is the same. He also surmises, since the pieces are not interlocking, that it probably dates to the late 1800’s. I assumed that it was from the Orient but Bob Armstrong*, a leading expert on the subject, tells me that jig-saw puzzles are a western phenomenon. My daughter and son-in-law gave me this wood puzzle in 1988.
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