Reproduction and Real Jaques of London Chess Set

Any insight into what era of Jaques this set is supposed to replicate? Seems like an approximation of a Jaques and not a true replica:

https://www.chessbazaar.com/chess-pieces/staunton-chess-pieces/the-staunton-series-jaques-pattern-chess-pieces-in-bud-rose-box-wood-3-4-king.html

I agree with you @mikejungle. It's a nice looking set but I can't see anything Jaques-like about it

It's a good price though,considering so many chess products have gone up....Especially if you can get the standard discounts.

I got a slightly imperfect version of this set with boxwood and ebony for a hair over $100. Good deal for ebony, methinks.

But I didn't know much about Jaques at the time, so I just kinda took them at their word. So I don't know if this set is based on a real Jaques pattern that was more recent, or if it's like I said: just an approximation.

Funnily, though, they look similar to these 1849 sets  produced by Official Staunton: https://www.officialstaunton.com/products/staunton-antique-1849-collector-series-chess-pieces?_pos=2&_sid=2ceddd63c&_ss=r

https://www.officialstaunton.com/products/staunton-collector-series-black-and-boxwood-chess-pieces?_pos=15&_sid=2ceddd63c&_ss=r

Some differences like the slant base, sharp crown on the king...but pretty close to the CB set. Does anyone know the story behind this pattern?

Double posting, but found another reproduction with similar knights: https://www.thechessempire.com/1849-jaques-exclusive-series-staunton-chess-pieces-br-boxwood-ebony-br-4-4-king.html

Obviously a lot of differences in the details, but the knight looks more similar to the CB set than the Jaques Cooke and Anderssen sets I'm familiar with. 

Again, anyone that knows what these repros are repro-ing would be appreciated!

I think these sets are just the manufacturer's or retailer's interpretation of an 1849 set. Based upon what I read, there were slight variations in the sets Jaques produced for each of his designs. One 1849 set looked slightly different from another. Even the knights in the same set were not exact copies of each other. Often times all 4 knights in the same set looked different from each other. Let's fast forward 170 years. Every manufacturer uses a different reference sample. Some replicating Jaques better than others. The result is a large number of variations of the Jaques original design.

I completely agree with the esteemed MCH......but,Ill add one thing......It's a really,"really nice" set!

Does Official Staunton have a contact email?  I was wondering if the set https://www.officialstaunton.com/products/staunton-antique-1849-collector-series-chess-pieces?_pos=2&_sid=2ceddd63c&_ss=r

...includes extra queens and if the black pieces are (hopefully unstained) ebony?

Thanks,

Dave

I think it is sales@officialstaunton.com.

Thanks very much!  Odd that I couldn't find that *anywhere* on their website.

not so straight forward indeed...:

go to "contacts"

under "follow us" click the mail symbol

email address should be visible at contacts.

it's very expensive to hire a (good) web designer. this seems quite elementary 

I guess I thought I assumed it was a whole different Jaques pattern or something. Official Staunton makes a great 1849 Jaques, and is in the early pages of this thread getting some market feedback.

That said, I think the knight in these similar sets looks cooler and less derpy than the original, haha. That's why I was wondering if it was a more modern Jaques. 

Welcome! It is definitely hidden. That's for sure.

its under the email icon on the contact us page (https://www.officialstaunton.com/pages/contact-us ), not easy to find, but not impossible.  

Thanks, Greg.  As a matter of habit I just ignore all the social media icons and never even noticed an email icon, hahaha!

They read this site: the email address has been added to the contact page so it can be seen.  

Its not great web design and not actually properly implemented or maintained (Google Plus has been dead for a long, long time but its still on the page too).  Back in 2020 the email address was on the index/landing page with what looked like something that should be a clickable link, which wasn't, but somehow it got removed in the last several months.  Today on the landing page "Contact US" is not a link, so its just an exhortation and displays some eccentric capitalisation, "24-7 Email Advice" is the same, and why does it seem to duplicate what contact us does?  "Free 48 UK Delivery"?  Is that 48 hour delivery or text mistakenly copied from a US site where delivery to 48 contiguous states is different to delivery to other US states (usually expressed as Continental or Lower 48 US Delivery)?  They aim, to deliver in 7 days to UK addresses, so its probably copied text, not 48 hour shipping.  No idea why "SSL Secure" is worthy of space in the middle of the landing page, PCI compliance claims (removed some time after Dec 2020) are arguably more important for some of us, but really need to be somewhere else on the site.  They need to get some professional web design, fix the typos (UK' not UK's in the big green link in the centre top of the page?), fix the grammar ("to ensure the security of the highest possible integrity"), strip out content that doesn't contribute to closing a sale, make the navigation more clear, reduce redundancy,  make the page more cacheable than it is (although that may be mostly under the control of shopify, which may also explain the problems with the physical size of the objects on the page), fix the broken javascript links and fix the javascript errors. There is more I could go on with.   None of this is hard, but it does require attention to detail.  

I would gladly overlook every bit of that if they would ship to the US!  ;-)

Jeezus what’s with the pedantic assault on a company web page 🤦‍♂️🤣🤣🤣. I’m sure most other chess vendors websites have such issues
Does the company sell good chess products? Are they customer-focused? This is far more important in my opinion

Chess Empire has also produced 1849 Jaques chess set but it is not accurate. Another thing as noted by others before is the use of lower end quality wood which has issues as highlighted in the Youtube review video of CM Jaques 1849. It is reasonable to use only high grade wood for reproduction of luxury sets although understandably they cost more for the manufacturer.