English “Washington” Chess Set, 18th Century

English “Washington” Chess Set, 18th CenturyAn English Washington Pattern Ivory Chess Set, Late 18th Century one side stained red, the other side left natural, kings with multi knops and cogged crowns, queens with multi knops and ball finials, bishops as mitres, knights as arched horses heads, rooks as raised turrets with knopped battlements, the chessmen with wide turned circular bases, in a wooden box with a sliding lid King: 9cm high Pawn: 4. 4cm high Box: 17. 7cm long Stock Reference: VS

Stock Reference: MJ 1480

Stock Code: LH 1236

(gilt stamp to the hinged lid) the interior lined in green baize with a clasp

The telescopic brass column and feet fold up and can be stored away in a special compartment within the hinged board/box

and a 19th century patent ivory and silver mounted lidded dice box with two die

three pieces from the British East India company side (including a camel bishop in top hat and holding a flintlock pistol and two sepoy pawns in East India Company uniforms with muskets)

“Antique Indian Chess Sets”

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inlaid with rosewood

the top inlaid with alternate chess squares in ebony and boxwood

An Indian Export ivory chess set

bishops with open split mitres and ball finials