This is an antique puzzle ball, described by Pinto as a Chinese Globe Puzzle, a jigsaw formed as a ball. It must have been as difficult to make as it is to assemble. What is really unusual is that it comes with its original rules/ solutions to the puzzle.
 
Desribed as The Mysterious Ball,both interesting and exciting, a parlour puzzle.
At the bottom of the solution it says that this one was made in 1909 at the Scottish Village, Shepherds Bush.
 
Page 227 Pinto, Treen and other Wooden Bygones.
It measures approx 7.5cm w.