by Pauline McCallum | Oct 31, 2025
A recent purchase from Ebay, this unusual looking set is best described as a hybrid one. With a King height of almost 5 CMS and base width of 3 CMS. The kings and queens have a type of English pattern looking shape (debatable of course), but the bishops and knights...
by Pauline McCallum | Mar 15, 2019
when I won this unusual looking set on E Bay a number of years ago, i decided to call this hybrid set ‘friar tuck’ all because of the fat bishops. the unweighted pieces made of boxwood? ebonised for the black side, is a nice chunky playing set . a real...
by Pauline McCallum | Mar 13, 2019
This set, according to Gareth Williams, is an early Dublin. Researcher Mick Deasey has found a few advertisements for this sought-after pattern .He found an advert from 1867 in College Rhymes . These chunky bell-shaped chessmen are made of ROSEWOOD & BOXWOOD, and...
by Pauline McCallum | Mar 12, 2019
This Dublin set was a most fortunate purchase from Dermot Rochford back in 2007, and it received excellent restoration by Alan Dewey who is a well known restorer to Chess collectors international members. Ihttps://www.chessantiquesonline.com/ cannot recommend highly...
by Pauline McCallum | Jan 29, 2019
This very important piece of research offers genuine documentary evidence re the dating of the upright pattern or ‘Edinburgh men’ as Hallett titled the chess pieces for sale on his envelopes. There is not enough reference to the date of 1840 to my liking...
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