232 | | Rare Austrian / German Biedemeier Antique Chess Set Fine Carving with Unusual Disc Bishops
This rare Biedemeier chess set is of superior form and large size. All 32 pieces appear to be original. The light side is made from fruitwood or boxwood with a lovely mellow patina. The Kings, Queens, Bishops, and Rooks have contrasting colored tops. The Kni (more...) | Set | Wood | Austria | | 0 |
241 | | Vintage Fantastic Chinese Dragon Chess Set Hand carved / turned. All pieces have carved faces. Knights in the shape of very detailed dragons. Each piece is slightly different due to hand carving. Sold | Set | Wood | China | No | 3.375 |
246 | | Vintage Hermann Ohme Mid Century Modern Chess Set A set of lovely chessmen designed by Herman Ohme and manufactured by Pleasant-time Industries 1960s. This set has an unique modern style with sleek, minimalistic lines. Large set. Double-triple weighted - pieces stand very solid. Sold
enlarge | Set | Wood | USA | No | 4.75 |
247 | | Hand Carved, Hand Painted, Beautiful Nautical Chess Set Hand Carved and Painted Wooden Sailor Nautical Chess Set by Wolfgang Bruno Kurtz (1926-2013)
Pieces include mermaids, seahorses, light houses, captains and deck hands. Sale. | Set | Wood | | Yes | 4.5 |
255 | | Beautiful Hand Carved Russian Chess Set Detailed, dramatic carving. Two tone wood. Vintage, age unknown. Beautiful board/storage box. Box size 12.5" x 6.25" x 1.75" folded. Square 1" x 1". Inlaid. Sale. | Set | Wood | Russia | Yes | 3.75 |
256 | | Vintage Coffee House Weighted Chess Set Excellent Condition. In Storage box. Vintage, age unknown, likely 1940-1960s. Cedar box (may not be original) marked:
Est. 1940
HORN
No. 0--40
No.CRILLS
MADE IN U.S.A
Sale. | Set | Wood | USA | Yes | 3.25 |
262 | | Antique French large "Regency" Chess set in box. Late 1800-early 1900, likely no later than 1920. Large size French Regency style. Perfect condition. Pleasant feel and patina. Box shows age signs and may not be original. Sold. | Set | Wood | France | No | 3.75 |
265 | | Large Hand Carved Wooden Chess Set Beautifully turned and carved. Excellent condition. Origin, type of wood or age unknown. Spld.
enlarge | Set | Wood | | No | 5 |
269 | | Beautiful Lacquered Travel Folding Chess Box With plastic pegged Chess pieces. Box size 6.25" x 4.75" x 1.25" when closed. Including space for captured pieces. Made in Spain. Like new never used. Sale. | Set | Wood | Spain | Yes | 1 |
270 | | Nice Two-tone Wooden Chess Set Eastern European, likely Poland, Austria or Russia. Natural / Black / Painted / Cut through wood. Age Unknown. Perfect condition, like new. In storage box. Sold. | Set | Wood | | No | 4.25 |
273 | | Nice Native Hand carved Wooden Chess Set from Haiti In a carrying playing board / storage box. With wooden handle. Crude beautiful carving. Nicely decorated box with local themes of fruit and fish. Age unknown. Sold. | Set | Wood | Haiti | No | 4.4 |
274 | | Excellent Mechanical Chess Clock by Insa Made in Yugoslavia. Wooden frame. Condition like new. Soft mechanical touch. Sold. | Clock-Watch | Wood | Yugoslavia | No | 4.5 |
276 | | Large Christmas Chess Set in Wonderful presentation Box / Board Just in time for the holidays. Never used still in original box. Hand painted wooden chess pieces. Thirty two Chess pieces plus two additional two elves for decoration in the holiday spirit. Box size 19.5" x 19.5" x 2.5", Board size 16" x 16", square 1.75" x 1.75". Kirkland. Sold. | Set | Wood | China | No | 4.75 |
280 | | Beautiful Hand Painted Russian Chess Set Lively colors. Charming. Box / Board 11.5" x 5.75" x 1.5" when closed. sold. | Set | Wood | Russia | No | 2.875 |
282 | | Fantastic, giant, wooden Chess pieces Super-size. Beautifully made and painted. Rare. Three pieces - King 23.5", Queen 20", Knight 15". | Set | Wood | | No | 23.5 |
559 | | Vintage African Hand carved Chess set Great carving, nice age-patina. Observations - one black pawn base has a small chip, another black pawn carved slightly different from the other seven. Sold.
enlarge | Set | Wood | Africa | No | 2.25 |
297 | | OOAK Designer Ches set i custom furniture Designer chess game by Ralf (Kepmi) Kepnik and Antonio La Cirignola. It is a complete piece of furniture-engineering-art comprising all components. Made of unidentified processed wood ("Chipboard"). Unique design of the chess pieces. Ultra-modern design of the pieces yet easy resemblance to the fami (more...)
enlarge | Set | Wood | Germany | No | 3 |
300 | | Vintage, mid-century modern Style Chess Set Sale.
enlarge | Set | Wood | | Yes | 0 |
301 | | Mid century Ultra Modern design wooden Chess Set Wooden Fantastic Mid century Modernist Turned Wood Chess Set. Resemble the sleek and modern lines of Wooden Anri sets such as the Space Age and Elsenior. Sale.
enlarge | Set | Wood | | Yes | 3.6 |
306 | | OOAK Beautiful, Cowboys-Indians Chess set Hand carved pieces, hand carved accents and features then hand painted chess Set. Beautifully done in lively colors and imaginative figures.
enlarge | Set | Wood | USA | No | 5.75 |
308 | | Stunning Mid Century Carl Aubock Chess Set Mid century, modernistic-minimalist chess set made by Austrian artist Carl Aubock. Carl Aubock is among the most celebrated figures of Austrian designers. Since erarly 20th century, the lineage is now in its fourth generation (all named Carl Aubock).
This large signature wooden Chess set, in ori (more...)
enlarge | Set | Wood | Austria | No | 5.375 |
321 | | Malevich Inspired Wood Handmade Chess set OOAK Wooden chess set by artist Viktor Dorofeev from Kursk, Russia. Viktor started to sell his craft in Moscow, in the famous art fair on Arbat Street back in the 1990s, right after the collapse of the USSR. Today, his unique work of art can be found in collections in almost every part of the world, (more...)
enlarge | Set | Wood | Russia | No | 0 |
331 | | MOMA puzzle chess Set This minimalistic Chess set was designed in 1966-1967 by F. Lanier Graham for the Museum Of Modern Art, NY. The shape of the pieces reflect the way they move. Was originally packaged in two-fold plastic case. See references https://www.google.com/patents/US3517935 and http://www.m759.net/wordpress/? (more...)
enlarge | Set | Wood | USA | No | 0 |
332 | | OOAK Chess Set by Hans Frank 1945 Very large pieces, hand carved in two contrasting-colored woods. In custom, two levels wooden box with hidden shelf. The artist s name is carved into the lid as well as an image of the city s coat of arms. The pieces are marked in German by the artist:
HANS FRANK
Bildhauer (Sculptor)
Burghouse (more...)
enlarge | Set | Wood | Germany | Yes | 4.5 |
337 | | Outstanding Vintage Hand Caved Zombies Chess set Vintage, artisan hand carved Chess set. Origin unknown. Each individually sculpted piece is unique and features rough look and scary piercing looking eyes.
Pieces are in excellent condition. 2021. Sold. | Set | Wood | | No | 5.5 |
338 | | Keith Haring Chess Set MoMA Exclusive chess set with pieces adapted from some of Harings most beloved works. A cheerful set shaped after sketches that will be instantly recognizable to anyone familiar with the artist, the Keith Haring Chess Set features pawns made of Harings barking dogs and castles shaped like men with t (more...)
enlarge | Set | Wood | USA | Yes | 2.5 |
341 | | "Old Vienna" style, complete Wooden Chess set "Old Vienna" style, complete wooden chess set .
This was the architectural style of chess sets used at competitions through the Austrian Hungarian empire and central Europe during the second part of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century.
This style/design continued to be used a (more...)
enlarge | Set | Wood | Austria | Yes | 0 |
342 | | Beautiful, modern design, Straight Up Artisan Chess Set This Chess set is designed to play a standard, casual game of chess as well as on a vertical chess board that hangs on the wall like picture Art. The chess pieces are made of white melamine particle board and the shape of the pieces are carved into the frame hand then hand painted. Beautiful, origi (more...)
enlarge | Set | Wood | USA | Yes | 3 |
362 | | Bookends This auction is for a wonderful set of older wooden bookends from the early 1960’s. A Medieval design of a castle moat with a barbican is on each one. (A barbican is a fortification, usually consisting of walls and small towers built in front of a gatehouse to provide additional protection to the ga (more...) | Furniture | Wood | | | 0 |
372 | | Stunning, Hand Carved, North American wildlife Chess Set Wooden Carved North American Wildlife Chess Set. Complete set of 32 pieces. King and queen are deer. Also horse, raccoon, buffalo, the pawns are dogs. The bottoms are either white or black. Felt on bottom of pieces. Interesting set. In very good condition. Sale.
enlarge | Set | Wood | | Yes | 4 |
394 | | Beautiful, antique Islamic motif, Wooden Chess Set Rare, colorful, authentic Indian-Islamic motif Chess set from Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. Original cloth chess board included. Excellent condition considering its age. Measurements are of Bishop & Rook. Sold.
enlarge | Set | Wood | India | No | 1.75 |
397 | | Vintage Wood and Bone Vienna Coffee Shop Chess Compendium Early vintage / antique production. Likely European. Natural wood with accented and buttons bone. Top opens up and two doors swing sideways to reveal a nice Vienna Coffee shop style Chess Set, stored on metal pegs. Folded Chess board is stored in the back of the box and a drawer extends under to pro (more...)
enlarge | Board-Box | Wood | | No | 0 |
403 | | OOAK Creative, Stunning Western Chess set made of Corn husk Vintage Chess Set made of Corn Husk and other common materials such as wood, wool, metal, etc. Amazing art depicting characters from the West, possibly South America in daily life depiction. Each is individually made - Landlord for king, dancers for queens, various religious characters for bishops, (more...)
enlarge | Set | Wood | | No | 0 |
405 | | Analog chess clock Excellent Excellent overall and working condition.
enlarge | Clock-Watch | Wood | China | No | 0 |
406 | | A GERMAN TURNED FRUITWOOD BARLEYCORN TYPE CHESS SET FINE ANTIQUE PLAIN NUREMBERG BARLEYCORN CHESS SET & ORIGINAL BOX C.1850-1880
An intruiging plain wooden Barleycorn chess set from one of the centres of German chess manufacturing in the 19th century, the workshops of the master craftsmen of Nuremberg. In relevant Nuremberg pattern sheets this spec (more...) | Set | Wood | Germany | No | 0 |
409 | | Anri Space-Age Chess set in wooden fitted box Outstanding Deluxe "Universum" Space Age chess set designed by Arthur Elliott for Anri, Italy, c. late 1950s/1960s. There were very few cool true mid century modern chess piece sets and even fewer crafted of solid wood. This is an exquisite design and extremely modern in every respect. No details we (more...)
enlarge | Set | Wood | Italy | Yes | 4 |
414 | | Turin, Italy 2006 Stunning Commemorative Chess set The 37th Chess Olympiad, organized by FIDE and comprised an open and a women s tournaments, took place between May 20 and June 4, 2006, in Turin, Italy. There were 148 teams in the open event and 103 in the women s event. In total, 1307 players were registered. This chess set was created to commemor (more...)
enlarge | Set | Wood | Italy | No | 4.25 |
415 | | Exceptional Vintage travel Chess Set Great set for travel. Inlaid board , mounted on half inch thick wood, folds into two and secured with locks on both sides. Half inch, pegged pieces provide for comfortable play. The pieces are stored in the holes at each end of the game box. There is a wooden sliding piece which slides to open and c (more...)
enlarge | Set | Wood | | Yes | 0.5 |
420 | | Beautiful, antique Islamic motif, Wooden Chess Set Rare, colorful, authentic Indian-Islamic motif Chess set from Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. Excellent condition considering its age. A couple of dings and significant use-rubbing of the paint, commensurate with age. Measurements are of Bishop & Rook. Sale.
enlarge | Set | Wood | India | Yes | 2.5 |
424 | | South American Indians Wood embedded metal. Sold
enlarge | Set | Wood | | No | 0 |
425 | | Vintage beautiful wooden Chess set Charming wooden chess chess set of European origin, likely Germany. The pieces are heavily weighted and good size and not only are beautiful and well crafted but also very pleasant to play with. New condition. In original wooden box. Sold.
enlarge | Set | Wood | Germany | No | 3.5 |
426 | | Man Ray Chess Set A 20th century licensed reproduction of the iconic 1920 Man Ray chess set. Made in Germany from solid beech wood with clear lacquered and black painted finishes. In Original box. Excellent condition.For Sold. 2022.
enlarge | Set | Wood | Germany | No | 3.25 |
428 | | Colorful Russian Chess Set - the Roses In Wooden folder board / box. All wood except horses heads molded plastic. Sale.
enlarge | Set | Wood | Russia | Yes | 0 |
433 | | Anri Elsinores Chess Set Fantastic Anri Chess set in original cardboard box. Light pieces made of Teak, the other Maple (Ahorn) wood. Condition is used and both box and pieces exhibit significant wear. One dark pawn seems to have been restored. Nothing that takes away from the beauty of this rare and unique set. Production (more...)
enlarge | Set | Wood | Italy | No | 4 |
439 | | Beautiful Hand Carved Chinese Figural Chess Set Vintage. Missing black king. Sale.
enlarge | Set | Wood | China | Yes | 0 |
440 | | Fantastic, giant, wooden Chess Queen Super-size. Beautifully made and painted. Rare. Excellent Condition. 20" tall. sold
enlarge | Figurine-Sculpture | Wood | USA | No | 20 |
442 | | Vintage Indian Wooden Elephants Hand carved Chess Set Age unknown, likely 1960s-1970s possibly later. Type of wood likely Sandalwood. One side natural the other darkened wood. Accents (ivory, finials) likely bone. Ornate hand carving. Camels for Bishops, Elephants for Rooks. Sale.
enlarge | Set | Wood | India | Yes | 3.25 |
443 | | Fantastic olive wood hand carved chess set One of the most beautiful olive wood chess set I havve ever seen. Modernistic yet traditional design. Beautiful hand turning/carving. Space age design. Likely 1950s-1960s. Sale.
enlarge | Set | Wood | Israel | Yes | 5.75 |
449 | | Antique Austrian Biedermeier Chess Set c1860
| Set | Wood | | | 0 |
450 | | Original Chess Business-Cards, pen holder Large. Beautiful carving.
enlarge | Figurine-Sculpture | Wood | Russia | | 5.875 |