by Pauline McCallum | Dec 14, 2025
Here is a genuine ivory English Barleycorn chess set with a 9 cms king purchased in the distant past from Dermot Rochford. At present there is a rather disturbing trend of misdescriptions from a host of Ebay sellers, and even worse are a number of well known auction...
by Pauline McCallum | Aug 9, 2025
This delightful set was offered on Ebay months ago, and whilst nicely carved- it is not a true Barleycorn set. King 10 cms, in superb condition. Note this:- there are a few jokers offering sets described as ‘Barleycorn’ or ‘barley twist’...
by Pauline McCallum | Jun 11, 2020
With the recent appeal to stop the ivory ban legislation failing, a set such as this bone set just might cause a few headaches! This nice and clean bovine bone set has very few visible bone pitting markings, and just might be confused with ivory. What collectors will...
by Pauline McCallum | Sep 25, 2019
This delightful late 19th century travel set in great condition was wcon recently at Pumphouse Auctions. The pieces are very well turned in good clean bone with minimal pitting. With a king height of 5cms and a base width of 2cms makes the pieces very easy to move...
by Jazziemack | Dec 12, 2018
This delightful English 19th century ivory chess set has been described without a scrap of information or evidence as a ‘Hastilow set’. Pure garbage – simply accepting similar looking sets seen via Google images is a load of bull. Why on earth did I...
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