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1926

As far as I know this puzzle first appears as 'Folding Postage Stamps' in 'Modern Puzzles' by Henry Ernest Dudeney', which was published by C. Arthur Pearson in London in 1926.

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The puzzle also appears:

1967

In '536 Puzzles and Curious Problems' by Henry Ernest Dudeney, which was published by Charles Scribner's Sons in New York in 1967. It is a combination of almost all the material previously published in Dudeney's 'Modern Puzzles' and 'Puzzles and Curious Problems', edited into a single volume by Martin Gardner.

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1971

This puzzle was also discussed in Martin Gardner's article 'The combinatorial richness of folding a piece of paper' which appeared in 'Scientific American' Vol. 224, No. 5 of May 1971, pp. 110-117.

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