The Game of War, circa 1890 victorian ivory chess set the pawn 5

the pawn 5

rooks with finials and pierced galleries

Rook: 21cm high

queens with double galleries

whose family collected them between the late 1860's and 1914 and containing interesting examples from Europe

The Game of War, circa 1890 victorian ivory chess set the pawn 5"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,