Post Your Novelty Sets

I think novelty means exactly the same when referring to chess sets.

Anything unusual or that hasn't been seen hardly before, or that is like a cheap party favour or gimmicky, or a combination of all or part of all of the above.

I'll delete the post though C+Ps get so invasive.

Thanks to Wollyhood and thomas1251lew (Thomas Lewis) for their most recent posts of unusual figurine chess sets.

As many young boys, I loved dinosaurs when I was a lad in the late 1950s and early 1960s and owned many small, soft plastic ones available at the time.  I also assembled dinosaur skeletons -- I think they were Revell models -- as is seen here, and no doubt I would have been thrilled to own a dinosaur chess even half as impressive as Wollyhood's.

wow, I'd like to see some close ups of that one. Looks like 10 years of carving

That looks like a Val Gardena or Anri figurine chess set.  Very attractive, even beautiful, but I wouldn't call it a novelty.  I admit I'm biased in thinking of novelty sets as ornaments, knick-knacks or bric-a-brac, and this set is hardly that.

Right but it does fall under the Highly Unusual definition of Novelty. I think Americans tend to use the word only in the tacky way.

Yeah, I would put my fave set up but it's already in the main pics of my profile so I think I will give it a rest.

Mine is supposed to be solid brass and solid bronze, nice big ones of the mediaeval mold that gets seen around. Do you know if that one you posted is wood or something else? I am quite intrigued by it, seeing as it was wood it would be handmade to great detail

Is maple really strong? I remember how flexible the trees were when we were kids, but how durable would it be for chess pieces?

Aha yeh we used to bounce up and down on maple branches overhanging the sea

It is in storage so I can't post a picture but I have a chess set composed of match boxes - IIRC they are from Italy.

What would one search for on ebay in order to try and find the office magnetic set?

The listing on eBay for the one posted here was "Mini Magnetic Chess Table with Metal Pieces;" another I believe was listed as "Aluminum Alloy and Zinc Alloy Mini Chess Set."  I won the set from eBay in August, 2014.  I suggest you also try Etsy.  That's at least some place to start.

That is novel, I'd really like to see that set, Mike.  Maybe you can post photos of it in the future.

I just picked this up:

It was made by a division of Hasbro.

Love your board, is it actual marble or just resin? I was experimenting with granite a while back:

Fantastic yeh. That's exactly the kind of stuff I hope to be trying to do.

There's these really nasty resin chess sets, that people keep calling "marble" these days, it's just plastic mixed with ground up marble, and dyed to look like marble. I hope not too many people get fooled, in essence it's just molded plastic.

If anyone sees Takaka Marble from NZ be very very wary.