Anyone know if this chess set is made by Drueke??

Hello,

The box says Drueke, but I have never seen another Drueke set like this!?  Note the unique bishops and knights. 

Thanks!

I think it's a Drueke chess set #20.

i am by far no expert though

did Drueke actually manufacture these particular sets? I thought they were just importing them from France and reselling them?

i found these pictures on an old British ebay listing. They look to be about the same style.

Drueke made or not,

it's a keeper.

I found this:

"For a while, the company imported chess pieces
from France, refinished and packaged them, and
then sold them under the Drueke name. "

Source: http://www.peterspioneers.com/druekepohlarticle.pdf

It is true that Drueke manufactured their own wooden sets also. But the one pictured above is most definitely imported from France.

There really isn't any question but that Frank is right and this is a Lardy imported and marketed under the Drueke label. Here is what the Chess Museum says:

Lardy was an important french chess piece manufacturer, founded in 1890 in Dortan near Oyonnax in the French Jura, which closed shop in 1992. In the interwar years and even more in the 50ies and 60ies Lardy must have exported very large numbers of chess sets to the major market USA and England, where they were commercialized by games brands such as Cavalier, Drueke, Lowe,Sterling and others, as well as to smaller markets. This very likely contributed to forcing local makers like Drueke or Horn or other makers in the USA and Jaques in England to stop or reduce making quality wooden chess pieces.

http://www.chess-museum.com/lardy.html

No,i don''t know