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5. Etiket van een puzzel van 'England and Wales' uit circa 1935.
NOOT
In dit nummer van Caert-Thresoor wordt in de rubriek
Thresoortjes ook ingegaan op een ander soort landkaart in
stukjes: de Cartophoot. Met behulp van de cartophoot-puzzel
konden in de jaren '50 en '60 van de vorige eeuw op een relatief
snelle manier kartogrammen getekend worden.
LITERATUUR
Bekkering, Betsy en Geert (1988), Stukje voor stukje : Geschiedenis
van de legpuzzel in Nederland. - Amsterdam : Van
Soeren & Co.
Hannas, Linda (1972), The English Jigsaupuzzle 1760 to 1890.
- London : Wayland Publishers.
Krogt, P.CJ. van der (1985), Advertenties voor kaarten, atlassen,
globes e.d. in Amsterdamse kranten (1621-1811). -
Utrecht : HES Uitgevers.
(1992), Stock catalogues of maps and atlases by Covens &
Mortier: The 'Catalogus van verscheyde koopereplaaten' of
the heirs of Pieter Mortier's widow (1721) and the
'Catalogue nouveau des cartes géographiques' of Covens &
Mortier (1763). - Facsimile edition Catalogi Redivivi, 8. -
Utrecht : HES Publishers.
Shefrin, Jill (1999), Neatly dissected for the instruction of
Young Ladies and Gentlemen in the knowledge of geography,
John Spilsbury and Early Dissected Puzzles. - Los
Angeles : Cotsen Occasional Press.
Slocum, Jerry & Dieter Gebhardt (1997), Puzzles from Catel's
Cabinet and Bestelmeier's Magazine 1785 to 1823- -
Beverly Hills : The Slocum Puzzle Foundation.
Tyler, Tom (2000), [Editorial]. - In: BCD Summer Magazine 57,
August 2000. - Biz. 2-3.
SUMMARY
Dissected maps to facilitate the teaching of geography
Though Linda Hannas' claim for the London map engraver
John Spilsbury being the inventor of the dissected map in
about 1763 is veiy well proven, some doubt is arising. Many
pre-1760 dissected maps by Covens & Mortier of Amsterdam
were considered as teaching aids for the upper classes. Catel
and Bestellmeier of Germany sent maps (probably dissected
in the Netherlands) as early as 1785 throughout Europe, probably
dissected in the Netherlands. From the 1780's onwards
pictures were dissected as an amusement but, even halfway
through the 19th century, dissected maps still made up a considerable
percentage of puzzle sales.
In the 18th century dissected maps - the pieces jumbled -
were sold in boxes, the pieces jumbled. In the 19th century
the Germans sold them made up in flat soft wood boxes, in
the Netherlands they were sold made up in folders. The
French typically sold boxed sets of three made-up maps. The
English used thick hard woods on which to paste the maps,
the Dutch used thin hard woods, the French and Germans
used soft woods. By 1880 hard-pressed white cardboard was
used for pasting the maps, to be replaced around World War
I by plywood. Diecutting thin cardboard was first seen in
Germany about 1900, and it became the regular puzzle material
by 1935; but by then the die usually was no longer shaped
to cut on political boundaries.
When political borders changed, often after a war, new maps
were made. Dutch map puzzles with dates of 1816, 1839,
1872, and 1918 are abundant.
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