by Pauline McCallum | Sep 30, 2025
When I set up this website my aim was not to feature only rare and/or valuable chess sets but to showcase the wide variety of sets I collect for sheer pleasure. A few weeks ago I purchased this uncommon. plastic set from the USA – not bake lite but hollow...
by Pauline McCallum | Jan 21, 2021
A fairly recent purchase on Ebay – (//www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ussr-chess-set/254792314547?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2648) , this Ebay seller has been offering some Russian sets, and this one is rather nice in my opinion. The set is...
by Pauline McCallum | Sep 2, 2020
This moulded plastic set from West Germany is not bakelite as some half starved sellers try to claim with desperation, just like they are hanging off a cliff with their hands holding a blade of grass. The CCI member Duncan Pohl offers some info in his book, which was...
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