Some of the earliest surviving dissected maps, made in London in the 1760s, were sold by London mapmaker John Spilsbury. Spilsbury affixed paper to wooden boards and cut his puzzles into pieces ...

According to Rebecca Onion of Slate, the "dissected maps" were handcrafted by cartographers as learning tools. John Spilsbury is credited as the inventor of the jigsaw puzzle, but only the well-to ...