French Lyon Set circa 1860-70
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Fine boxwood & fruitwood Lyon Chess set , pieces with bone decoration. Set is an unusual design which has come to be known as the inverted Lyon shape and is less common than the more traditional urn-shaped Lyon sets, with the kings & queens with inverted shaped bodies, knights as carved bone horses heads, rooks as towers, pawns with bell shaped bodies.

Kings 3.75" / 9.5cm

 

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