patch damaged chess pieces

Hello All, I would like to ask you for suggestions how to handle something like this
one thing is fix the damage but more important how to restore same color as the rest of the pieces. Any idea what technology was used on the surface?  Here is example of the knight to help identify the time period

thanks very much for any suggestions

Jj

The Bishop is quite easy - you could apply woodfiller and sand it back to get the shape right. Then carefully mask off the the whole piece apart from the woodfiller bits, and use rattle-can gloss Black car paint. I've done this a couple of times on ebonized pieces (the Black pieces in your set are ebonized boxwood) after seeing Alan Dewey suggest it on one of his videos and it works surprisingly well.

The pawn is more difficult. You'd probably need to cut off the chewed section so you have a flat surface to glue to, and then glue on a piece of boxwood. You'll want the grain running straight up the pawn on the bit you add, so that it matches the rest of the pawn. Then when the glue has dried, shape it, ideally using a lathe - although you might be able to manage without by using sandpaper and a lot of patience.

They look to be maybe from 1900? So the finish is probably French Polish. There are tests you can do to help work out what the finish is. It looks like French Polish from your pics. 

Matching the colour on the pawn would be difficult (at least for me, I've never tried). Whenever I've repaired boxwood chess pieces I have left the colour as it is. One thing to bear in mind is that boxwood darkens with age, so the repair will become less obvious over time if you don't make any effort to stain it. 

thank's very much for your reply. I really appriciate it. For the pawm I actually got one which isn't same but it has head with the same/similar diameter. I though about cut the head off and use head from the second one and keep original color which is close to this damaged.

I have some expewrience with French polish. I used it on chess boards and even the layers were new, it still looked as old. Thats the magic of French polish . I think I will try to get same material and try to test different numbers of layers and type of the French polish.  I anyway have to find the right color for black because I miss one black, queen, knight , pawn and rock. I have some replacement for queen/pawn/rock but they are not 1:1 match, but they are close.

To find knight on ebay/etsy with same look and size is (almost) impossible. I woould probably replace it with new an dget the right color on it