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[2] [3] John Spilsbury is believed to have produced the first jigsaw puzzle around 1760, using a marquetry saw. [1] Early puzzles, known as dissections, were produced by mounting maps on sheets of hardwood and cutting along national boundaries, creating a puzzle useful for teaching geography. [1]
He affixed a world map to wood and carved each country out to create the first puzzle. Sensing a business opportunity, he created puzzles on eight themes - the World, Europe, Asia, Africa, America, England and Wales, Ireland, and Scotland. Spilsbury married Sarah May of Newmarket, Suffolk in 1761.
Jigsaws are popular throughout Europe, and in the American Great Depression jigsaw puzzles sold at the rate of 10 million per week. [ 2 ] The first references to any kind of jigsaw puzzle accessory can be found around 1900 when a "Frame" was first included in Dutch jigsaw puzzle boxes [ 3 ] so that a completed puzzle could be permanently saved.
[3] [4] In 1947, after development of Kaufmann's invention, Scintilla started producing jigsaws under name "Lesto jigsaw". In 1954 Scintilla was acquired by Bosch . An important innovation by Scintilla-Bosch in 1966 [ 5 ] was the "pendulum action", where the blade tilts forward in the upward (cutting) stroke, and back for the down-stroke ...
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[2] Although the jigsaw puzzle producers like Hayter flourished in the 1930s, through the concept of the weekly jigsaw puzzle, the English Victory puzzles, found in department stores in the 1950s and 1960s, almost completely vanished. [3] The company became a subsidiary of board game manufacturer J. W. Spears and Sons in 1970. Spears continued ...
Piece together a new jigsaw puzzle every day, complete with themes that follow the seasons and a super useful edges-only tool.
Built from 32,256 pieces, it measured 17' × 6' (5.18 m x 1.82 m) and came with a hand truck for transportation. [2] Ravensburger has since released larger puzzles, with their largest being "Memorable Disney Moments" and "Making Mickey Magic" having 40,320 pieces each, however they have also since lost the world record to a 51,300 piece puzzle ...