queens with double galleries
rooks with finials and pierced galleries
raised on an oval base
whose family collected them between the late 1860's and 1914 and containing interesting examples from Europe
with a complete set of CHESS MEN
The Game of War, circa 1890 victorian ivory chess set queens with double galleries"The Game of War", a British Army wargame, manufactured for HM Goverment by V & J Figgins, circa 1890, in a mahogany box, the white metal "type" representing the infantry, cavalry, mounted infantry, horse artillery, trains, pontoon, engineers, telegraph troops and skirmishers, one side in blue, the other side in red; two inset wooden trays, two ivory rulers, two ivory measuring squares, steel callipers, two metal pace measures, two metal nippers,