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PetioPetio

Hello, I bought this interesting chess from Greece. The man I bought it from said that it was made in 1921/1922. The interesting thing is that instead of officers, there are elephants who would help with information if he saw such chess elsewhere was made of bronze.









antisunechess

Nice, all weird gothic and mythological designs come from here, greece! Cool looking set. However, if you bought it from some sort of tourist shop it probably isn't from 1920.

lucastiger100
Agree with above. A chess set that old will already be broken and very unlikely that it is true.
antisunechess

 I'm from greece and i know a lot about these tourist scammers. A rule of thumb is that if the shop is on a popular street, the product is usually fake.

antisunechess

Nevertheless, it looks super cool. Can you make pics with better lighting?

PetioPetio

I bought it from someone who claims he was his grandmother's heir

PetioPetio

Tomorrow i make pics if it proves to be true whether it would be valuable

antisunechess

Yeah the lighting is inadequate to judge right now

antisunechess

I think that the board is probably authentic though, its easier to find authentic boards

PetioPetio

tomorrow I will take more pictures of both the board and the figures thanks for the comments

PetioPetio

what would be its price if authentic

PetioPetio

more pics  https://drive.google.com/open?id=1rDtqS1pw32rmJ_xrm--GOtb0kVTEs-m

I posted a new topic More pics gothic chess set  because I can't upload photos here, there are more photos as well as the link above. 

 

antisunechess

The link doesn't work

PetioPetio

Look my them more pic gothic chess set

PetioPetio

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/more-pics-gothic-chess-set

antisunechess

They are probably original. Where did you get them from/ This often says a lot. If they are original I'd say 300 bucks, but I'm no expert.

 

PetioPetio

thank you for your opinion you have been very helpful to me

antisunechess

But where did you get them from?

antisunechess

See if I know the seller or something

PetioPetio

from Athens from a guy on the street I don't know him he used to sell it to me and I bought it I paid 200 euros for it said he was at his grandmother and was 100 years old