A British Chess Company clubsize boxwood and ebonised weighted chess set

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A British Chess Company clubsize boxwood and ebonised weighted chess set
the knights heads modelled in xylonite, the box with the paper label of the British Chess Company -- king 3 7/8in. (9.8cm), pawn 2in. (5cm); a mahogany and satin birch parquetry chess board, stamped BRITISH CHESS Co STROUD, GLOS -- 20¼in. (51.5cm) sq; and a pamphlet relating to the Parliamentary Chess Match, promoted by the Anglo-American Telegraph Co Ltd of London and the Western Union Telegraph Coy of New Yory in 1897, frayed and distressed (3)