Thanks for sharing this! It's great to see playing sets given such a great showcase. The photos are fantastic! That set appearing around 5:20 reminds me of the Filipino sets ... I wonder if there's a connection. Keep up the good work!
The Knights from the Modern Series have a cobra shape to them. The little taste from India on a German inspired set. I have a Modern Series set and love it. It was awesome to see where it got its influence from.
Thanks for this and the link you posted to the chess-museum in German. Thanks to that I managed to find a 'logo' of the famous Uhlig factory! By the way, do you know if they were also the authors of the glass-eyed knights? (In the catalog in that page, I could see that they mention it.. "Glasaugen"
Interessante que Você arranja as peças de acordo com a hierarquia e força, assim a Torre aparece no seu lugar 'de fato e de direito', logo ao lado da Dama... E assim fica evidente a desproporção de quase todos os jogos: as Torres são pequenas... Acho que só alguns artesãos (notadamente de Dieppe, França, ainda faziam Torres altas durante o Século passado. Saudações de Curitiba, Paraná
