niceforkinmove, I did get that leather board from Katherine Louise, as you surmised, and it's excellent.
Wow you never know who is on the Chess.com forums!
You have an informative and amazing collection of chess materials. Thank you for taking the the time and effort to post pictures and information on the internet. I really enjoy looking at the sets and learning about them.
niceforkinmove, I did get that leather board from Katherine Louise, as you surmised, and it's excellent.
Wow you never know who is on the Chess.com forums!
You have an informative and amazing collection of chess materials. Thank you for taking the the time and effort to post pictures and information on the internet. I really enjoy looking at the sets and learning about them.
will you please take pictures of this said set and post them?
niceforkinmove, I did get that leather board from Katherine Louise, as you surmised, and it's excellent.
Wow you never know who is on the Chess.com forums!
You have an informative and amazing collection of chess materials. Thank you for taking the the time and effort to post pictures and information on the internet. I really enjoy looking at the sets and learning about them.
will you please take pictures of this said set and post them?
niceforkinmove, I did get that leather board from Katherine Louise, as you surmised, and it's excellent.
Wow you never know who is on the Chess.com forums!
You have an informative and amazing collection of chess materials. Thank you for taking the the time and effort to post pictures and information on the internet. I really enjoy looking at the sets and learning about them.
will you please take pictures of this said set and post them?
yikes thats pretty fabulous. how much does this person charge?
I purchased my leather board from Katherine Louise in 2003, for the very reasonable price of $126!
Here's a Picasa album of a late-18th/early-19th century Pulpit set on the leather board:
https://picasaweb.google.com/102930925707438682950/PulpitSet
Though my collection is not in league with Jon C's (hi Jon, good to see you in these forums) I have managed to get some nice pieces over the years (many of which I've already posted in other threads, but why not here too?)
(I made the above crazy one myself)
(Ok it's a very common set, but I like the picture)
more at http://www.tykroll.com/chess (edit: typo in url fixed, thanks, Sombodysson for pointing it out.)
@tykroll, what is the material of the first set (red and white) and the second set? Do you have more pics of those? Gorgeous.
@tykroll, what is the material of the first set (red and white) and the second set? Do you have more pics of those? Gorgeous. fix link to www.tykroll.com/chess
The first one is bone. It was sold to me as sheep bone and I have no reason to believe it isn't; it's a pretty small set and if you unscrew the rooks the diamater of the marrow hollow inside is pretty small, but I think some cow bones are that narrow too. I have more pics here: http://www.tykroll.com/chess/bs2.html As far the material is concerned the funny thing is the White King which is a replacement is made of ivory.
The second one is made from carved tagua nuts "vegetable ivory" and I have more pics here: http://www.tykroll.com/chess/tstaunton.html
Thanks
oh, I see. tagua, and bone staunton harrwitz. beautiful site.
Thanks again. I should say I only called the first set "Harrwitz-like" to differentiate it from my other bone Staunton set. The labelling of the various Jaques Staunton sets with different chess player is a thing. Calling non-Jaques sets is not a thing and not a thing I intend to start. I do think the makers of my bone set were copying the Jaques set we call Harrwitz, but it would be wrong to call it a Harrwitz set.
@tmkroll so cool that those bone pieces unscrew into so many sections. so cool. I bet you unscrewed them carefully!
(sorry, hit enter accidentally before finishing the post, and after edit it ended up all in the a quote, which it wasn't)
Yes, some old sets don't unscrew at all or it's dangerous if they get stuck you might break them. In general though that's a way to tell bone sets from ivory if you don't know well by look and feel. There are ivory sets made from smaller pieces but together too, especially very long, slender pieces which would be hard to turn otherwise or some Asian sets which I think were made out of little pieces put together to make use of ivory "scraps" but usually, especially if the pieces are hollow when they have no reason to be, it's a good hint you're dealing with bone which was hollow to begin with so needed to be put together in this way.
Though my collection is not in league with Jon C's (hi Jon, good to see you in these forums) I have managed to get some nice pieces over the years (many of which I've already posted in other threads, but why not here too?)
(I made the above crazy one myself)
(Ok it's a very common set, but I like the picture)
more at http://www.tykroll.com/chess (edit: typo in url fixed, thanks, Sombodysson for pointing it out.)
dang son where'd ya find this?
It's a sickness folks.
Yep.
A Noj Dubrovnik, a plastic Dubrovnik, a BCE Eastern tournament, a Staunton 4" in rosewood, a Zagreb, several travel sets, even a kitsch Franklin Mint 'Waterloo' & yes even a crazy set bought in Las Vegas [the King is a stack of chips]. I'm sure there will be more in the future.
Unfortunately there appears to be no effective medication!
what's Noj?
btw, I think the medication is buybuybuy. If you stop buying you start feeling the need to take the medication. but check out tmkroll, a chess.com member, for his beautiful chess sets. He has opened my mind about what chess sets can look like.
niceforkinmove, I did get that leather board from Katherine Louise, as you surmised, and it's excellent.