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  English Cigarette Cards  including two sets with maps plus a variety of others   Set 1.  Counties of British Isles  – set of 25 coloured cards showing one county with a typical occupation and description of that county on reverse. John Player & Sons, c. 1914.   Set 2.  Products of the World  – set of 25 cards with a country depicted (map) and a typical product / occupation and description on back. John Player & Sons, believed to be from 1908/1909.   Plus Set 3.  Set of Flags of the League of Nations  issued by John Player and Sons (50 cards 1928).;  Set 4.  Struggle for Existence  issued by John Player and Sons (25 cards 1923). Wild flowers but with interesting names and descriptions of their properties. Set 5.  Railway   Equipment  issued by W D and H O Wills (50 cards 1939).  Set 6.  Ceylon Tea  issued by Ceylon Tea Centre (Series A 25 cards) issued 1955;  Plus 10 odd map cards from different sets: Perth from Counties of British Isles  – set of 25 colo
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 Two interesting maps: Home-made map puzzle of England and Wales. Very unusual puzzle, obviously hand made and home made. All the counties (except Rutland) are cut to their shape and hand coloured. Whole fits into a home made box with label and attractive sliding top. Dating is difficult but would seem to be over fifty years old. and Victory Geographical Puzzle – Map of the British Isles. Very nice puzzle of the British Isles, complete and with original box. Size of puzzle when finished is approx A4. Both maps together €40 with free shipping.
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  Ohio as wooden jigsaw puzzle complete in box  Dissected map with title Clemens’ Map of Ohio, 400 mm x 310 mm.   Below title: Published by the Rev. E J Clemens.  State cut into its county areas. Including the large frame pieces amounts to nearly 100 pieces. One county missing - Morgan? - and one piece has a small bit broken off. Imprints: Prepared by G B & C W Colton & Co., New York (below map frame bottom left); and Entered According to the Act of Congress in the Year of 1882 by G B & C W Colton & Co. in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, in Washington bottom right). Reverse is an advertisement for the “White” Sewing machine. Scene of a sitting room with a "White`’ sewing machine prominent. An internet puzzle collector has writen the following: From what I've read and what I have discerned from my small collection of the Silent Teacher series of map puzzles, it appears that the line was started in the late 1860s or early 1870s by G.N.Tackabury of Canast
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  1930s humorous map of London as wooden jigsaw puzzle complete in box  Dissected map with title  The New Pictorial Map of London , circa 475 mm x 730 mm.  Including the large frame pieces amounts to nearly 650 pieces. Two inset maps of locations of theatres and cinemas. Three parts are missing (send for details and further photos) and a couple of pieces have a small bit broken off. Two pieces strengthened/repaired by me. Imprint on box:  Prepared by "GEOGRAPHIA" LTD  who were one of the premier map publishers at that time. Poster has imprint:   This map was printed and published by "GEOGRAPHIA" LIMITED 55 Fleet Street in the City of London. Box quotes: This puzzle contains a sealed key to the problem. This is actually a 1:1 scale copy of the puzzle as poster. This has been folded to fit into box but could easily be ironed and laid down as a poster. The same poster map was published separately in covers as a folding map and
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