by Pauline McCallum | Sep 30, 2021
A recent purchase, with a description which is as good as it gets. For the money spent this item surpassed expectations. In short, a cracking item, moreover I believe they are rather scarce, as I only know of two collectors – both CCI members – who have a...
by Pauline McCallum | Aug 23, 2021
A recent Ebay purchase that caught my eye. This scarce item – which CCI member Peter Armit kindly informed me was a Bertram Jones turned aluminium set in the Staunton style -dates from the 1940’s. With a base width of 4cms, and king height of almost...
by Pauline McCallum | Jun 17, 2021
Now this set purchase on the Bay in March 2021 takes the biscuit – a piece of lazy bidding-, when my gut instinct told me the so called ‘Bulgarian rare set’ was a load of BULL, however for the price paid I was delighted with the item. The...
by Pauline McCallum | Jun 16, 2021
These boards don’t become available too often, so a most fortunate eBay purchase. With a playing surface of 18 x 18 inches the board is of great interest because of the inserted strip of wood over the playing surface, presumably added to prevent the inlaid...
by Pauline McCallum | Apr 28, 2021
Some weeks ago I saw a curious-looking Staunton chess set on Ebay and won it, and saw on the box’s underside it is touchingly inscribed in pencil ‘November 7th 1885 from Papa’. I already had in my collection a larger version of the same set, but with...
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