Great acquisition, Up!
Spanish Chess Sets 5-Rarity, and...
I am glad my cb&e friend Ras, after a non-selling week on ebay, is keeping his set, as it is a wonderful set to play. I have found both knights, this one and the type Upcountry Rain has shown on page one, post #17. Pawnerai has found one of that kind, and had made a thread to identify it, https://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess-equipment/a-mystery-early-american-chess-set-for-20?page=1#last_comment
which, if you click it, is now called "SOLVED: Rare vintage Vigo, Galicia, Spain set for $20"
Is it too quick to draw that conclusion, that they are both from the manufacturer from Vigo, the source to be specified, that Arlindo's story introduced in #1?
The sets resemble one another a lot, the feel is the same and the knights are both 'kangaroo' size. But the horses' heads are, of course, different, and the bishops are rather round here, rather elliptical there, queens' heads are a little different, too. It could quite possibly be the same manufacturer, but it needn't. And so this thread is still waiting for answers from the Iberian Peninsula to the questions of the very first post.
Here are three pics of the sets I found: The 1st one shows the version the thread opens with and that Pamvo7 has shown right above.. The 2nd and 3rd photo show the set that much resembles the sets of Upcountry Rain and Pawnerai:



Notable detail: Unlike the knights in the sets Upcountry and Pawnerai have found, the knights of this one are not especially tall. So there are tall knights of the second type, but also ones of a more conventional size.







That's the one! Imagine a carnation or two, with a spring of baby's breath coming up through the neck.