| The Public Paperfolding History Project
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| The Boy's Own Toymaker by E Landells | |||||||
| 'The
Boy's Own Toymaker' by Ebenezer Landells was published in
1859 by Shephard, Clark and Brown in Boston and Griffin
and Farran in London. It contains, among other things, chapters on Paper Toys, Cardboard Toys and Practical Puzzles. The chapter on Paper Toys is mostly concerned with paperfolding and explains how to make: The Paper Boat
********** The Pyramidal Hat
********** The Paper Box (the Catherine of Cleves Box)
********** The Fire Balloon (made by pasting a number of curved gores together)
********** The Parachute and a variant the Arrow Parachute
********** The chapter on Practical Puzzles contains, inter alia: The Cardboard Puzzle (How to Climb Through a Playing Card) (The drawing for the solution is missing from this image.)
********** Cutting out a Cross (the Fold and Cut Latin Cross)
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