Chess Problems and Master Games, Pair of Late 19th/Early 20th C. Ledgers Turned Chess Scrapbooks wooden brooch Nice maps inside

Nice maps inside

Clearly the brown wool jacket shows some loss and there is a missing button on the white one

I've been continuing to keep an eye out for old ex voto retablo

or perhaps for parents expecting twins

which is also quite a satisfying thing to wrap ones hand around

Chess Problems and Master Games, Pair of Late 19th/Early 20th C. Ledgers Turned Chess Scrapbooks wooden brooch Nice maps insideI'm not much of a chess player, but I love the game as the ultimate strategy sport, and as also as a metaphor. And as a huge fan of Duchamp, a chess devotee whose whole oeuvre can be read as a series of chess moves, all things chess related feel Duchampian to me. So I had to bring these home, ledgers turned chess scrapbooks, which sold me on their covers alone: "Chess Problems, 1892" and "Chess Games Played by the Masters in International Tournaments,