Hi all.
Regarding posting #495 on the Staunton thread. I clicked onto the link for picasa. Despite its relative reported oldness, there are a lot of great pics there. Thanks you, Alan Dewey! It does support/confirm (despite my own resistance to posting pics and my usual generosity and preference for many words) the saying of "a picture is worth a thousand words".
A few comments: is that a Viza in pic #10, or is it a Burmese (seems like the latter to me?) As far as relatively new sets, I am partial to the Enfield (Commemorative Fischer-Spassky set). There are some wooden St. George(?) sets there that I wouldn't mind in my own collection, but overseas purchases just turn me off...
While I might have a little of your attention, and so as to not post comments all over the place on various threads, (which some folks did not seem in the past to take a liking to), I'd like to comment on the most recent CCI issue of The Chess Collector (Vol XVII No 3, 2008).
I found that Alan Fersht's short story / article on the "Harrwitz Find" was entertaining as well as very interesting. Rodolpho Pozzi's article on the Mao Tse Tung chess set was short but informative and appreciated. Guy Lyon's article on "BCC" article (with the reported help from Frank Camarrata and Mike Deasey and edited by Jim Joannou), shows an ever increasing expertise at research (Bravo and thank you!) The article on Chess Artists showed how diverse discussion on chess related items can be. Of course, it is always good to see Novella William's name - in this case when describing some politically cunning moves with respect to a particular bronze sculpture. And even though Tony Raynes's advertisment on the back page showed a particular s tyle and material not to my taste, there are indeed a number of collectors out there who might be interested in such sets. Such a wide variety of interesting chess pieces and discussions make for an interesting and well rounded group. (Might not you agree, folks?)
Jim Joannou continues to provide excellent multi part (in this case, Part 1 of Chess Sets from the Philippines) articles as well as an outstanding job with editing and inserting great chess related tidbits and updates.
Apologies to anyone whose name I may have either misspelled or inadvertently missed.
And finally, since I am especially partial toward ANRI chess sets, I simply loved the picture (of several key ANRI chess pieces) which appears on the cover of this recent issue of the CCI international newsletter. (Yup, I have that particular set! It's a keeper!)
Have a good rest of the weekend, y'all! John, Vermont (Winter's acomin' Beware!) ;-).
John, Vermont.
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