Biedermeier like set in Gstaad, Switzerland

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I went today to the tennis tournament in Gstaad and found this set in a shop. Rather poor quality but I like it very much. I guess it was manufactured I the region and sold for tourists, perhaps late 19th or early 20th century. Or can somebody else tell me more about it?

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This is a "toy set", which were typically made in the German Erzgebirge region and probably also in the neighbouring Nuremberg region.

The last two pictures are screenshots from Joost van Reij's excellent website www.schaak-museum.nl

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Yes, thanks. In the meantime I found another thread where you told me that another similar set is a “toy set”. My set and many of the sets you depicted here have bishops somehow in Biedermeier style, or not?

Holger, tell me if you once come to Switzerland. Perhaps you will be interested in some of my sets for your own collection. Or just to chat about collecting chess. In all the decades I am collecting I only met once a serious chess collector. 

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Sorry for my late reply, but I was on vacation - not to Switzerland, unfortunately, but to Italy. I would love to meet & chat, but I am afraid that I have not planned a trip to Switzerland in the near future. But one day, maybe. I have a fellow CCI collector who is residing near Montreux and another acquaintance in Zurich. So maybe there will be an opportunity to make a "chess" round trip! happy

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Nice set, but it looks too fragile to buy it.

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doesn't look comfortable to hold

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EfimLG47 wrote:

Sorry for my late reply, but I was on vacation - not to Switzerland, unfortunately, but to Italy. I would love to meet & chat, but I am afraid that I have not planned a trip to Switzerland in the near future. But one day, maybe. I have a fellow CCI collector who is residing near Montreux and another acquaintance in Zurich. So maybe there will be an opportunity to make a "chess" round trip!

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Fish-Killer wrote:

Nice set, but it looks too fragile to buy it.

Yes. In this time people were not playing bullet chess, so the pieces weren’t always robust.