Can you please help me to identify this Staunton?

K 11 cm, 5 cm. Thanks!

Thanks 😊

Yes, it has to be restored. Any idea about the age? I thought that the bishop is not the old style, too modern (better, as it will not break easily). Perhaps 1930s? I just don't know.

I bought them like this. It needs restoration. I am still trying to find out when and where this set was produced.

Nice find! I have not seen one like this before. The knight carving is very good. Seems to me that like British is a good guess, as does 1930s, maybe earlier.

Thanks, yes, I never saw a similar set before.

The set is quite heavy, 849 grams.

This looks a lot like an old American set I bought years ago. I think it was made by a company called Sterling for Drueke. Your set is maybe the third one pictured on the catalogue page. Maybe...or maybe not.

Thanks. Yes, similar. The bishops are different though.

Oldquaker, maybe I am wrong and the bishops aren't that different. I will compare with my own set later, thanks!

Thanks, I will comparison later with my set.

How many sets do you have?

No idea. Right now the sets are distributed in different places. I even can't estimate. Something between 200 and 300, I guess. However, the number of very good sets is probably between 50 and 100. I will able to be more precise after cataloguing my collection, making a step from chess hording to chess collector.

I would love to be able to recognize it from this advert from the 1930s... but that remains too imprecise.

You are right. Perhaps I will never found out.

Looks like a Cooke chess set.

Thanks. The bishop’s cut in my set is not characteristic. In the early sets the cut is more open. They were also more fragile, so the modern bishops have a less pronounced cut, like in my set.

I compared to American Drueke sets. I think they are not similar. Knights, pawns for example are different.

I'd have thought probably British. Very nice - I like those mysterious old sets.