Plastic chess pieces n°5 weighted and felted

Same as previous one's, but black pieces are in rosewood.

These handy wooden pieces come in classical design, and the little weights within make them comfortable to move and hard to fall.

With their classical beauty they fit perfectly to wooden chessboards of 50 and,55mm square size (see this one for example:  http://www.marchand.be/en/chess-boards/285-5788.html). 

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Pièces d'échecs en buis teinté, plombées-feutrées. Ces pièces conviennent à une taille de case de 50 mm.

Tinted wooden chess pieces, weighted with felted bottoms.

Same as previous ones, but in boxwood tinted in black. 

Pièces d'échecs en buis teinté, plombées-feutrées. Ces pièces conviennent à une taille de case de 50 mm. Hauteur roi : 10 cm (base 4 cm) Hauteur pion : 5 cm (base 3 cm

Pièces Staunton Meghdoot en sheesham (palissandre indien) triple plombage, feutrées cuir. Ces pièces conviennent à un échiquier dont les cases mesurent 55 ou 60 mm.

Pièces Staunton Meghdoot black triple plombage, feutrées cuir. Ces pièces conviennent à un échiquier dont les cases mesurent 55 ou 60 mm.

A spectacular product made of ebony. As we can see, knight are masterpieces. This set of tall chess pieces will be very impressive on a red maple chess board (with squares of 55m).

This beautiful Staunton chess pieces earn a point in their history; in the 19th century, London was a major center for the production of chess pieces. John Jaques, one of the main ivory and wood turner then, decided to better the appearance and it's function of the chess pieces. Together with his partner Nathaniel Cook, they finish their model in 1849 and record it in honor of Howard Staunton, a former charismatic chess player and journalist. A kind of marketing hit ahead of its time.

The Staunton chess pieces are stable by their broad base and the general aesthetics of the pieces is transformed: The tower is an impregnable fortress, the line of pawns is refined, the miter of the runner is simplified, it is now more easier to distinguishes the crown of the king thanks to the cross, from the lady her pointed collar. And above all, the ultra-realistic appearance of the horse raises the desire to fight on. Style which we clearly find inspiration back in the frieze of the Parthenon, a masterpiece of Greek sculpture in the 5eeuw BC. which is largely preserved in the British Museeum London.

The Staunton pieces quickly had a great success and were officially prescribed in 1924 for competion. Different variants of Staunton since the original model made in 1849 are now all over the world available for chess players, but they remain faithful to the "John Jaques style".

The Supreme Staunton chess pieces are felted and weighted. They are cut in a dense, valuable ebony, an exceptional deep black. They are perfectly polished, smooth and shiny, and fine glittered with oxalic acid crystals. Giving them as recollected more brilliance to light.

They will perfectly suit on a chess board with squares of 55 mm.
 

Ces pièces d'échecs en buis et sheesham, plombées-feutrées conviennent à un échiquier dont les cases mesurent 50 mm de côté.

Chess pieces of tinted boxwood, weighted and felted. Suits on a chessboard with squares 55 mm large.

Weighted with felted bottom Supreme Staunton chess pieces, sculpted in ebony: a precious wood of great density and of a profound blackness. Perfectly polished, shiny and smooth, they are finely sequined, which gives them in light this singular glittering aspect.

They will perfectly suits on a chessboard with squares measuring 55mm.

Stallion Staunton chess pieces, weighted with felted bottoms. Those chess pieces will perfectly suit on a chessboard with 50 mm squares.