19TH CENTURY

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A RUSSIAN CARVED BONE 'ARCHANGEL PATTERN' TYPE CHESS SET
19TH CENTURY
One side stained red, the other natural, the kings, queens, bishops and pawns with finials carved as faces, the knights as horses' heads, rooks as bulbous turrets
The king -- 2 7/8in. (7.2cm.) high; the pawn -- 1 5/8in. (4.2cm.) high

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Lot Essay

These sets are generally attributed to Archangel, located on the White Sea coast, as an important trading city in Russia's far north and, in particular, a centre of walrus ivory trade. Mark illustrates a similar late 18th or early 19th century bone example, which also retains an old manuscript note stating it was made in Archangel. See British Chess Sets 1700-1950, Exhibition catalogue, published by Asprey and Chess Collectors International, May 1986, fig. 31.

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