by Pauline McCallum | Feb 27, 2021
Bought some months ago (November 2020), a delightful wooden pegged set from French Ebay seller Micraster2livry. With a number of pieces missing – a knight’s base, a queen, three pawns, and a rook all in black – phew!, as colour patination matching is...
by Pauline McCallum | May 22, 2020
This Russian playing set has a rather amusing feature – the ‘pear-shaped’ kings and queens, the king being 10.5 cms in height but the pieces gently weighted. Many sets were not weighted because the bases were not suitable for weights to be added,...
by Pauline McCallum | Dec 12, 2019
purchased in late 2004 whilst I was in hospital being treated for lung cancer, by the extra excellent N H S , this set was a very welcome surprise . I believe this is most likely an early 20th century German figural set . Wood type I have no idea , and I believe the...
by Pauline McCallum | Nov 27, 2019
As with any collector, I have a number of boxes and getting hold of original boxes for decent sets is not easy unless you are prepared to spend decent money. Getting a Jaques box with a decent label, or even a BCC one, one has to be careful as copy labels exist and...
by Pauline McCallum | Mar 26, 2019
THIS CHUNKY BEAST OF A BOXWOOD SET WAS THE SUBJECT OF PAST DEBATE AMONGST CCI MEMBERS, AND HAVING LOOKED AT DOZENS AND DOZENS OF ENGLISH ST GEORGE CHESSMEN, I NOW AGREE WITH THE EARLIER HELD VIEW , WHICH IS THAT THESE SETS ARE OF FRENCH ORIGIN – NO ENGLISH ST...
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