Maybe playing all the time on a computer screen has made me nostalgic for the heft and beauty of real chess pieces. I have started to collect sets made by the William F. Drueke & Co., which was the first company commercially to manufacture chess sets in America. They began in 1914 when America's source of sets was cut off by World War I, and they produced tens of thousands of sets by 1991 when they were purchased by the Carrom Co. Bobby Fischer liked playing on Drueke's "Players Choice" sets.
In the last four years I have collectede enough Drueke sets to illustrate a century of their chess output. This I have presented in a blog entitled "William F. Drueke Chess Sets." https://www.chess.com/blog/BruceHedman/william-f-drueke-chess-sets
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