Help identifying a set of Chessmen... please
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Hello fellow chessmen/women....🙃 My husband and I are lovers of everything chess. we play a ton as well as collect/renew chess boards and sets. we picked this set up at a local yard sale and man is it badass. It is by far one of our favorite to play on. We can not for the life of us figure out the set, nor the craftsman behind such an amazing group of chessmen. Any such help would be greatly appreciated. Happy cheesing 🙃😊😜
Here are the chessmen....finally figured out how to post a picture. Thanks
Aug 9, 2021
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If your new you probably won’t be able to post pics . Three days waiting period a and best done on a computer or android phone. On FB there are a number of chess collector groups as well. Look forward to seeing the set.
I posted I believe
I have posted to FB groups as well as my husband no one seems to know. Only likes...thanks tho.
Aug 9, 2021
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Spoke to soon lol look like wood. Take a close up of dark side too.
Try to show detail in smaller groupings. Nice set my guess Latin America outside chance European and not Asian nor African .
Try to show detail in smaller groupings. Nice set my guess Latin America outside chance European and not Asian nor African .
Mister EfimLG47 is usually in his warehouse dusting off his pieces. In between he's here and he will able to tell you all about it.
@TheOneCalledMichael - just back from dusting off my pieces...LOL
@Lindsie85 - in which FB groups have you posted this? I have my own group of which I am admin (https://www.facebook.com/groups/171812150040374) and I am following several others as well, but I cannot remember seeing this set in one of them. I have to admit that the pieces currently do not ring a bell. The cross finial on the kings has a lot of resemblance with Filipino sets, indeed, as @Schachmonkey already suggested. But I am not sure, if it really is Filipino. I actually doubt it or at least have never seen a Filipino set like this. Do you perhaps have more pictures you could share? I cannot make out a lot of details on the pictures above.
When I worked there, I spoke regularly with the guys who were cleaning the windows inside and outside. Once I asked what they were doing when they're done with their round, they said they start all over again.
Good luck mister!
And I can tell you, it makes a difference, if you are dusting off this one
or this one...
@Schachmonkey - it is a chess set made by Henke and was probably one of the first sets made in the "Berlin" design. The Box is labeled with "Henke Art.Nr. 1712". The G. Henke & Co. was a German company located in Bad Karlshafen, a small town right on the border between Hessia, Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia. It is unclear, if Henke was a manufacturer of chess sets or if Henke just imported and distributed them. According to the exhibition catalogue, Henke apparently provided some chess sets for the chess exhibition organised by Herbert Graetz on the occasion of the 1960 Chess Olympiad in Leipzig. The company operated until the early 1970's and then disappeared. This set here is most likely from the 1950's or 1960's.
@theendgame3 - no problem, bullett chess in the local park is ok. It is cheap plastic, nothing to worry about. 
Uhm, from all the pieces there I only recognize the storage box, it's a French storage box right? Probably made for Lardy?
theendgame3 wrote:
TheOneCalledMichael wrote:
When I worked there, I spoke regularly with the guys who were cleaning the windows inside and outside. Once I asked what they were doing when they're done with their round, they said they start all over again.
Good luck mister!
ING eh?
makes sense now how you afforded your cool bikes, tech and great chess sets Mike 😉
Haha yeah well we're the house banker for all money laundry businesses
Hello all, thank you for your help so far. I will take and post some better pictures today. As well as join your fb group. @EfimLG47 beautiful sets as well. 😄
