Chavet N° 8

Very nice set @TheOneCalledMichael, which looks practically new.
Mine deserves to be dusted off…

WCC2000

THANKS ! I still have a small doubt about the knight, but I imagine rather pointed ears unlike those of the next generation which were more rounded…

;-)

Here is another series.
Set Olive and Wengé in size 2, 4 and 6, then this curiosity that I have trouble identifying. Apparently olive wood with?… if anyone has an idea, don't hesitate ;-) Size 4, varnish.

No idea what kind of wood, but boy is that a nice sight!

You do know that the European Union frowns upon monopolies of any kind don't you? Soon they'll detect a suspicious hotspot of Chavet chess sets and start investigating 🤣

Guess as long as I don't use all that wood to keep me warm they'll leave me alone. 😇😜

Not only the EU, but the High Table already issued an excommunicado for this.

I know a safe house where you can hide those sets.

In this overview, in what period would the second knight be situated? If I'm not mistaken, the third one is from the seventies on, but the second one I have not seen it referenced alot in this thread (or I must have missed it, the thread is huuuge)

Edit: Come to think of it, if it is a one piece knight it would put it in the seventies as well, is that correct?

Awesome! Thank you Walter!

I asked because I find that second an odd one where the lines of the back, chest and snout are different from all the other ones, even from the two piece knight preceding it. It almost looks like an experiment of sorts where it was then decided to go back to the original lines (almost vertical back and chest line with a different inclination.

I'm staring too much at all those pictures I guess 🙄

or apprentices in full discovery of the manufacture of a knight;-) I think that certain variations are only the result of chance and the level of qualification of the employee.
You have to look at them imagining yourself in the 70s, in a workshop with no real quality department...

Good information and pictures. I also have a few CHAVET sets. One thing I noticed is the variation in the Knights. My B207A set has the "normal" CHAVET looking Knights but I have another set (same KH of around 84 mm) with a slightly different Knight, they look like Collie dogs, lol. The dark pieces comes in dark chocolate color like one of those pictures posted earlier.
Below are the pictures of the Knights from 2 different sets. 
Thanks again guys for those valuable info.

Another hypothesis, from the various games that I date from the 70s. There are, as in the 1932 catalog, sizes 7 and 9. 

At first I didn't understand why it was possible to find two sets with a size 8 label, when measuring them, each one had a different size... I observed the same thing with size 10 sets. 

I come to the conclusion that in the 70s, Chavet decided to stop production of sizes 7 and 9. These will be sold for 8 and 10, with the existing 8 and 10. To confirm this, one would have to find sets with labels, but I doubt that these labels existed.

And a series of sets from 8 to 3, all with glass eyes.

I end on this "200" series sets (10 to 4), varnished or lacquered.

And that logically brings another element: only the varnished or lacquered sets have a number that begins with 200, and that is why the B210 cannot exist when it leaves the Chavet workshop.

I think it is a read/rewrite error of the word « BUIS »translate in B210.

@Walterbiensur Can you take a picture of the first picture from 1970, the black one. I like that style better. The queen is thin.

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@Walterbiensur

The modern set made by chavet is nice. Cant understand what inspired them to work on the same.

The knights look odd and not very play worth.