Large Lewis Chess Set

Replicas of the famous Lewis chess pieces carved of walrus tusk between 1150 and 1200 AD. Pieces are approximately 3 1/2 inches tall. Set includes a sturdy storage box, a 64-page book on the history of the pieces, and a cloth chess board.

The Lewis chessmen were found hidden on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland, in the early nineteenth century. Probably made in Norway around 1150-1200 AD, they consist of elaborately worked walrus ivory in the forms of seated kings and queens, mitred bishops, knights on their mounts, standing warders and pawns.

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