Chavet N° 8

I was looking at a B210 Size 7 set on eBay but unfortunately, someone snapped it off! I wonder if it was worth that price...

Ah, “the value of beautiful things”…
I have seen some sell for much less and others for 2.5 times that price. I'm talking about the model often called B210, size 6.

If you don't like the copies offered by several other companies, which produce them illegally... the price can quickly become prohibitive.

What I can specify about this sold game is that it was produced in the early/mid-90s, more than 10 years after the manufacture of the famous B210, the one used during the WCC1990 and in other famous tournaments. The seller agreed to lower his price.

The queen is different, the knights too.

Between 1970 and 2020, Chavet produced several variations of size 6 sets.
I can count about 5, and the one from 1990, the one that seems to panic the wallet, I describe as version 3.
The one that was sold is version 4.

Anything else you can tell me about this size 6 set?

I'd like to : do you have one or more specific questions?

Those 70s knights have a quite zombie-like appearance! 😱 Love them though, those shorter snouts are still my favourite.

What disconcerts me the most is to observe variations over this same period.

Do you see the differences? Henri Chavet - Size 6.

The first knight, I was convinced, when I bought it, that it was exactly the same as the other Chavet… well no.

However, all the other pieces are almost identical.

With the flatter underside of the knight, I was immediately thinking about the ones you posted in this post a lot earlier in this thread.

I have never seen a knight like this!
The bases of the queen and king are different... the knight's too, as is the rook... strange assembly.

If I were an importer, I would ask for my sets to be delivered in bulk (India?). I would save on shipping costs and would fill beech boxes, which I would equip with a quality brass closure ;-)

Is this a chauvet?

Yes it is Chavet !

I would say it matches a lot!!!

Closest one yet. Nice spot @BrownishGerbil

Size and color chart.
Hanging in the Chavet workshop, yesterday.

And a size 3 in tones that I had never seen in the series of lacquered

Knight sold by Chavet: source Chavet.

"...interesting visits to the pipe factories and diamond cutting factories for which the region is famous, as well as by a very pleasant excursion by coach - on Sunday morning 15 - to Dortan (25 kil de Saint-Claude), centre of the factory of M. Vincent (Ernest), former mayor of Dortan. It seems that the region produces annually nearly 300,000 games, but for the most part Staunton models which, acquired for the most part by German houses, are then resold by them all over the world (made in Germany !??). The French games only account for a tiny minority in the total!" - 1929 La Liberte

My first thought when I read this article was to observe the players forced to play the championship with Regence sets, while in the village next door they manufacture Staunton ;-)

J'étais curieux de ca aussi.