Got a few new sets.....a cheap color glass one ( "Hey happy birthday! We know you love chess! Look at what we got you!" ) lol. At least it wasn't the boring all the same glass no color one that is everywhere. Civil war chess set. A fantasy Crystal set that I really like. Pieces are really heavy and well detailed in pewter, and it is one of the few chess sets with each pawn uniquely diffferent from each other. The next one is a pewter Lewis Chessmen set. Small but heavy pieces that took me a while too track down. The last one is a African Padauk set that I receive from Designer Chess. Been wanted one with Padauk wood for a long time and pretty happy with the set.
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Hahahahaha. I laughed out loud at "hey we know you love chess". The thing is, that set is so tacky it has somehow transformed in to something cool. Your last set is incredible!
Hey @BrothertheCloud - lovely sets, thanks for posting. I love that you purchased your Phillipines set when you were there many years ago. I was able to buy one via Holger Langer in Germany recently and I love it’s rugged simplicity. 👍
I've got three of those Philippine Staunton sets myself, all through eBay Classifieds. One, the largest, i bought from the same source as Holger Langer (the son of an engineer who had a couple hundred of them made in the 1970s in the Philippines to sell them back home, but never did), one a APF Rolland-imported set which was officially sold in Germany in the 1970s also (in one of those dreaded faux-croco boxes), and finally one which i got real cheap together with a lovely RPF zebrano ebony board , also from someone whose dad had died. I expected the latter to be an Rolland-imported set also, but the size is different yet again and also the proportions vary a litttle bit. There seem to be many minor variations out there.
It's a lovely style, I just wish any of them were weighted for better playability.