English Boxwood Chess Set, 18th century antique games board The chair was designed specifically

The chair was designed specifically for the four thousand guests invited to the Prince of Wales's Investiture at the Medieval Caernarfon Castle in July 1969

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English Boxwood Chess Set, 18th century antique games board The chair was designed specificallyAn Old English boxwood chess set, 18th century one side ebonised a dark brown colour, kings and queens with baluster knops, queens surmounted with balls, bishops as split mitres, knights with cleft tops, rooks as raised bulbous rusticated turrets, the king, the pawn 8. 2cm high, the pawn 3. 9cm high, in a wooden box with a sliding lid, 17. 3cm wide. Scarce. Stock Reference: PO 1482 Reference: Michael Mark, British Chess Sets, exhibit 1 for a similar