Exquisitely Hand Carved Detailed Sheesham Wood Chess Pieces & Wooden Board Chess Set 14" Very Fine Handcrafted & Detailed Chess Pieces made by skilled Artisans of India Exceptional Master Piece ...

Narrator: With every shaving and small incision, master artisans turn these trunks of wood into 32 hand-carved chess pieces. You can pick up a plastic set for $20, but a wooden set certified for ...

The “iconic” Lewis chessmen have been redisplayed in a case which allows visitors to see their backs for the first time. The ...

ivory traded for religious purposes doesn’t garner the aggressive scrutiny it might if it were carved into, say, chess pieces. God’s ivory has its own loophole. CHINA’S IVORY FACTORIES ...

Ninth-century Vikings slaughtered herds for blubber and hides. Medieval Europeans carved chess sets from tusks. From the 16th century to the 20th, commercial whalers exploited walruses ...

There are also notable differences – Redmayne’s Jackal collects carved chess pieces and likes birdwatching – indeed the only mistake he makes is when he accidentally drives into the back of ...

And no chess pieces offer richer insights than the 78 ... and he comfortably fills a clenched fist. Most of them are carved out of walrus tusks, there are a few that are made out of whales ...

The chess pieces are intricately carved (Stewart Attwood/PA) Ten of the pieces from the NMS collection have now been redisplayed, with new lighting, layout and refreshed interpretation.