Accession number:
PML 86015
Published:
à Paris : Bouasse-Lebel, Imp. Edit., 29 Rue St. Sulpice, [ca. 1860]
Description:
8 jigsaw puzzles : col. ill. (lithographs) ; 26 x 36 cm
Credit:
Purchased on the Elisabeth Ball Fund, 1991.
Notes:
"Ancienne Maison Basset"--at foot of some prints.
"Ch. Smith Sculpsit"--lower left hand corner.
"Mme George Scripsit"--lower right hand corner.
"No 5 B-M"--bottom of box.
Probably before 1867 when Hungary got separate recognition as Austria-Hungary (on one map here it is a large body called the Empire of Austria, which was established in 1804 as such).
Probably dates from before 1870 because the departements of Alsace-Lorraine are still named Haut-Rhin, Bas Rhin, Moselle. They were ceded after the Franco German War, 1870-71 and remained part of the Reichsland to 1902.
Title from lid of box.
Binding:
Publisher's cardboard box with pictorial title label depicting the five continents, pasted on lid; blue paper decorated with birds covering sides of the box; inside lined with pink paper, stamped G. Martin (28 x 38 cm); in modern blue cloth box (30.5 x 40 cm)
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