House of Staunton is misleading about their description of the Zagreb 59'. Don't get me wrong I love the design. However the only piece that is an adaptation is maybe the Bishops. Everything else is a work of marketing fiction. Yugo sets never had opposite colored finials on kings and queens. Also the king's finial never had a cross or a ball spiked finial. There are pictures of the 59' Zagreb tournament and they all show the Dubrovnik sets.
Zagreb - Yugo - Leningrad
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There is a photo of the 4 knights at the start of this topic from the house of chess.
I owned 2 of those sets when I lived in Thailand, I think that the dark wood is a special type of rosewood but I am too lazy to look it up.
I really liked those sets, the boxwood and rosewood and the knights of course were very nice.
A few things however...
It took quite a while for the sets to arrive, 4 to 6 weeks I think, probably made to order.
The rosewood is very, very fragile. A black king was knocked over and fell on the floor and the base lost quite a big chip of wood.
The sets are triple weighted and no joking with the box they weigh a ton.
A very nice set to keep at home for slow games.
Not a set to play blitz or to lug around, it will damage easily.