Chess Problems and Master Games, Pair of Late 19th/Early 20th C. Ledgers Turned Chess Scrapbooks wooden brooch Clearly the brown wool jacket

Clearly the brown wool jacket shows some loss and there is a missing button on the white one

Nice maps inside

which is also quite a satisfying thing to wrap ones hand around

I've been continuing to keep an eye out for old ex voto retablo

most visible from underside

Chess Problems and Master Games, Pair of Late 19th/Early 20th C. Ledgers Turned Chess Scrapbooks wooden brooch Clearly the brown wool jacketI'm not much of a chess player, but I love the game as the ultimate strategy sport, and as also as a metaphor. And as a huge fan of Duchamp, a chess devotee whose whole oeuvre can be read as a series of chess moves, all things chess related feel Duchampian to me. So I had to bring these home, ledgers turned chess scrapbooks, which sold me on their covers alone: "Chess Problems, 1892" and "Chess Games Played by the Masters in International Tournaments,