The Lewis Chessmen

[sonomabarn67]

For all the chess players on the board, if you buy vintage chess sets or pieces keep a special eye out for the Lewis Chessmen discovered off the shore of a Scottish shore in 1n 1831, One piece is coming up for auction estimated at $ 600,000 to one million dollars. This may be old news but I was compelled to post this after being greeted by those Precious Moments items that kept showing up on this landing page.

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[sonomabarn67]

Cant get them to post now, check em out on google.

[waxu_93]

very expensive😎

[maxine*j]

Was that the one an antiques dealer bought for about $6 in the 1960s and held onto for over 50 years, before it went to Sotheby's and sold for well over $900,000?  

If so, there are some good pictures here:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-48824712

My late husband was a chess player and among the sets he had was a Lewis replica.

[sonomabarn67]

That might be it. Thanks!