Unusual Nuremberg Chess Set, 19th century south german antique wooden chess set decorated with mother o' pearl

decorated with mother o' pearl inlay showing trees and flowers

knights as sea-horses

"Coronation Year Edition"

: Observationi Teorico-Pratiche sopra il giuoco degli scacchi

attended by the two senior Magistrates

Unusual Nuremberg Chess Set, 19th century south german antique wooden chess set decorated with mother o' pearlAn Unusual Nuremberg Bone Chess Set, 19th century one side stained red, the other side left natural, kings and queens with fluted neo classical columns, the turned and reeded bishops tapering sides surmounted with ball finials, knights with arched horses heads, rooks as turrets surmounted with finials, pawns with spreading bases, in a 19th century mahogany box with a sliding lid King: 8. 5cm high Pawn: 3. 5cm high Box: 22cm long, 16. 5cm wide Stock