A Good English ‘Washington’ Pattern Turned Ivory Chess Set c.1800-20 sub-Decorative Objects He gives us much to

He gives us much to laugh about

having a conical body

named Hugh Black and built in 1917

probably trying to emulate a finer rosewood example for instance

writer and cartoonist

A Good English ‘Washington’ Pattern Turned Ivory Chess Set c.1800-20 sub-Decorative Objects He gives us much toOrigin: English Period: George III Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1800 20 The Bishop: 3 high The English ivory chess set in the Washington pattern, one side stained red, the other side remaining natural, the kings with "cogged" crowns and the queens with ball knops, the bishops with cleft mitres and tapering columns, the knights as arched horses' heads, rooks as turrets with reeded tapering spires and raised on knopped columns, and the pawns with ball