The Lewis Chessmen, (Norwegian?) Finish:Rolled beside a table bearing lighted

beside a table bearing lighted candles

Bridewell Hall

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Brooklyn Bridge

'Anglo-Gallic salutations in London - or Practice makes perfect -'

The Lewis Chessmen, (Norwegian?) Finish:Rolled beside a table bearing lightedThe Lewis Chessmen, (Norwegian?), c1150 c1200, (c1920). Nine ivory chess pieces from a collection of ninety three found at Uig on the Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. The pieces consist of elaborately worked walrus ivory and whales' teeth in the forms of seated kings and queens, mitred bishops, knights on their mounts, standing warders and pawns in the shape of obelisks. A board large enough to hold all the pieces would have measured 82