English Boxwood Chess Set, 18th century antique games board Bill Jones

Bill Jones

colour illustration to front and rear

knights with carved manes and flared nostils

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

the period directly following the Napoleonic Wars

English Boxwood Chess Set, 18th century antique games board Bill JonesAn 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