Hamley Bros. London Rare c. 1880 "Dissected Map" of the World Puzzle in Original Box vintage measuring tape on the diagonals

on the diagonals

) I really love both the silhouettes and the color combinations on these

and delicate aqua blue with lots of bubbles in the glass and thick walls encasing the vessel itself toward the bottom

which appears to be made of a different

The seller (from what I could make out on his tag) seems to have thought perhaps for holding floats (maybe he meant fly fishing flies

Hamley Bros. London Rare c. 1880 "Dissected Map" of the World Puzzle in Original Box vintage measuring tape on the diagonalsThis is a rare one, and in fact I can't find its exact match, but there were others similar produced in both London and the United States by other companies, which help date to about 1880, maybe a few years earlier. What I've learned is that "dissected maps" (lithography maps mounted to wood and cut into pieces) were one of the earliest types of educational tools for children, used in early kindergarten, and among the first iterations of the jig saw