Ref637    English Ivory Playing Set      Circa 1840-60             460 GBP
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Fine turned & carved ivory chess set, one side stained red other side left natural, all pieces with concentric turned decorated bases, kings & queens with multi tunred bodies, bishops with open mitres, knights as fine carved horses heads, rooks as turrets on stems.

The set comes in original satinwood slide lid box.

An interesting playing set with a lot of similarities to the Howards bone sets of the same period , the rooks and general turning decoration to Howards, the knights are very well caeved and detailed for a set of this size.

Kings 2 3/8" / 6 cm Tall

460 GBP (Great British Pounds for currency convertion click link below)

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