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in a mahogany box with a sliding lid and yellow label (plaid border): J
Provenance: Private British Collection
bishops with ball finials
Reference: Two very similar "Game of War" sets were sold at Bonhams: "Chess
containing cow-bone and bamboo polychrome decorated tiles:
Biedermeier 'Selenus' Chess Set & Board chinese export chess set in a mahogany box withA Biedermeier "Selenus Pattern" Bone Chess Set & Wooden Board, German, circa 1840 one side stained red, the other side left natural, kings and queens with scalloped galleries, bishops with ball finials, knights as arched horse's heads, rooks as cylindrical turrets, pawns with baluster finials, with the original wooden box (with sliding lid and divides), and a hinged boxwood inlaid board box for chess and backgammon or tric trac King: 8. 9cm high Pawn:
