Q. My great-uncle brought this ivory chess set back with him from China. The set is complete, but some of the pawns’ swords are missing. –Jane S. Blewitt, Elida, Ohio A. References to chess ...

This chess set was given to me when I was a child. Each piece has its own individual character with the 4½-inch-tall kings being fearsome looking. Paper labels read: “Guaranteed African Ivory ...

A Chinese chess set made of clay has been unearthed in Funing county, Hebei province, China News Service reported on Tuesday. The chess set was found on May 5 during repair work on the Great Wall ...

Queensland Police are appealing for public assistance in finding a 17th-century, hand-carved ivory chess set stolen from a house in Brisbane's eastern suburbs. Skip to main content.

A CARVED ivory chess set could sell at auction for more than £7,000 after it was saved from a bonfire.

Wood, jade, bone, ivory and horn were all used to fashion small figures, animals and practical objects. The earliest Chinese ivories go back 2,000 years, but most of the pieces that come to the market ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala., Oct. 5, 2017 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Wood chess set manufacturer, The House of Staunton, explains their humanitarian mission to produce ivory chessmen without endangering the ...

That was for a single ivory king made in Egypt or Syria for a Muslim 10th Century chess set. It was sold in 2000, having been bought the previous year at auction for £1,000.

Intricately-carved Chinese elephant tusks that are biggest to ever go sale, set to fetch mammoth £250,000 at British auction. They were made during China’s Qing Dynasty between 1644 and 1912 ...

Chinese Model Railroad, Carved of Ivory, at a Crossroads October 20, 2015 7:06 PM By Rong Shi; ... carved in ivory, spent years at the United Nations headquarters in New York.

SAN DIEGO — A San Diego man is accused of trafficking illegal elephant ivory after online ads led undercover officers to him, the San Diego City Attorney’s office said Wednesday. Prosecutors ...

Chess News: An early Indian lacquered ivory figural chess set is one of the highlights of the Chess and Games sale taking place on May 1 at Bonhams, Knightsbridge ...