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Vizagapatam |
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Lund |
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Northern
Upright |
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Macao |
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Kashmir |
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Flame
Kashmir |
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Muslim |
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French
Lyon |
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Antique
Compendiums - Compendiums...Victorian
Era...A bit of “History”
Those who are devotes of the "Victorian" "Gothic"
type novels are most familiar with the games then popular
in Great Britain.In many of the novels, Chess is played...even
by the women...Vs the male love interest in the plot. Surprisingly,
though these women were often called "blue stockings,"
they were judged "excellent" opponents by the men
seated across the game board.
While
most of the male aristocrats, the top 10,000 of the "ton"
as it was called, gambled voraciously, cards also were available
in the home. The game of Bezique, Whist, the forerunner of
Bridge and Fortune Telling Cards were permissible and enjoyed.
Included within the Games compendium was often a "Steeplechase”
game, with metal horses and a playing board for the race.
The board for Chess and Draughts was usually leather. Cribbage,
Dominoes, Draughts were included and of course Chess was the
highlight of the Compendium.
All were housed in a Wooden Box, often Burlwood or Mahogany.
The Compendium pictures appear as a courtesy to me from Andrew
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The
Walnut Agate Compendium |
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FABULOUS
Walnut Games Compendium with original burl walnut and agate
exterior (H:6” W: 12.75” D: 9.25” ) Original
leather and coromandel interior with ivory pieces. COMPLETE
AND ORIGNAL THROUGHOUT!! By Bethel, Jacobs, and Hull by appointment
to the Queen. Registered to 15 April 1869. Truly wonderful.
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Partridge
Wood Compendium |
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Rare
Partridge Wood Compendium Lovely Victorian Games Compendium.
Rare partridge Wood exterior with fitted leather interior Lovely
hand-carved and stained ivory pieces, decks of cards, counters,
2 tumblers and die, and original leather two-sided game board,
this Games Compendium is quite complete. The comprehensive Victorian
entertainment center - it is all inside! You can play Chess,
Checker, Backgammon, Dominoes, Cribbage, Bezique, Whist, and
many other varieties of card games. All the pieces are there
- enjoy! Condition: Exceptional
Year: 1890 Height: 6.75" Width: 13" Depth 9"
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Antique
Tables |
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Some
of the most beautiful antique tables… William
IV Penwork - Rarely seen in other
than Black and White Circa 1830
2.25” Squares |
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Regency
1810 Carved Rosewood with Faux painted Slate Top 2.5”
Squares |
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Rosewood
& Tortoise with Bronze Ormolu - Circa 1895 2.25”
Squares Reversible Top |
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One
of the Rarest and Most Important Chess Sets In the World
By Armfelt for Faberge -
Fabergé Chess Set Circa
1905
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Karl
Gustav Hjalmar Armfelt (1873-1959) Fabergé, St. Petersburg
Aventurine quartz,
Grey Kalgan Jasper, Silver; King: 8 Pawn: 4.5
Board: Siberian Jade, Pale Apricot Serpentine, Silver; 63.5
X 63.5 X 8
This exquisitely
worked set, the only one known to have been produced by Fabergé,
has the opposing sides made of tawny aventurine quartz and
grey Kalgan jasper, standing on a silver framed board on which
squares of Siberian jade alternate with pale apricot serpentine.
The set was commissioned as a gift to General Alexei Kurapatkin,
Commander-In-Chief of Russian forces during the ill-fated
invasion of Manchuria in 1904.
Inscribed on the
side of the board are the words: To warmly beloved and dear
Commander Adjutant-General Alexei Nikolavich Kurapatkin in
memory of Manchuria 1904-1905 – from those devoted and
grateful to him.
It is said that
Kurapatkin sank into a deep depression after the defeat of
the Russian army at Mukden, consoled only by his love of chess.
In the
wake of the February Revolution of 1917, Kurapatkin was arrested
and sent to Petrograd but was subsequently released and permitted
by the Provisional Government to move to the provinces, where
he worked as a clerk. He died in Shemshurino, Pskov Region,
in 1925.
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