Eventually I found a Bauhaus chess set with board in a second hand shop!

The Bauhaus chess set was designed in the 1920s by Joseph Hartwig and is famous for its radical simplicity. I always wanted to get one for my collection, but even the sets produced today are very expensive. Today I found a set and board in pristine condition for a very good price. I guess this set was a gift to someone who didn’t know what he got, perhaps a chess player without any idea about chess history.

Excellent find. 

Thanks! 

Today I found in a flea market in Bern, Switzerland, a wonderful chess table with Regency pieces. The table is damaged, but nothing that can’t be fixed by a specialist. The price was 60 SFr, which is of course very low for this piece. Actually I never saw a board with such detailed intarsia.

Looks nice. Are there more than 32 pieces? And if so, what are the extra pieces?

The set is unfortunately not complete, one black pawn was replaced by a small black bishop (!). This is however not a problem, as I have a lot of Regency chess sets to use with the board, some of them of good quality.