Chetak Chess Pieces at The Chess Piece

First few years you can see a lot of variation in the knight carvings even w/in the same set. The pic of those knights kind of suggests they had firm design templates that changed from year to year. In general that sort of is true, but w/ the knights in particular you kind of see various fluctuations based on the individual carver. Certain design ideas carry through (eg Dropjaw on Anderssen knights, elongated head on Steinitz "megamouth" knights, etc) but within those design ideas you see wild fluctuations, unlike firm design standards common on later sets.

And yes, I meant that the 1849 knights looked really skinny from up front and then started acquiring a more pronounced chest over time...