Chess pieces
Category
Toys
Date
Unknown
Materials
Wood
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Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 937120
Summary
Three part chess sets: (a) plain, unpolished wood, eighteen pieces, two of which are broken into two; (b) polished wood, twenty nine pieces, including a 'white' knight broken into two pieces, a black bishop missing a small piece from the top and an extra 'white', non-matching, incomplete piece; (c) four knights, two black and two white, polished wood.
Provenance
Stamford collection; devised to the National trust by Roger Grey, 10th Earl of Stamford (1896-1976).