Chess Problems and Master Games, Pair of Late 19th/Early 20th C. Ledgers Turned Chess Scrapbooks wooden brooch and quite a lovely impressionistic/expressionistic

and quite a lovely impressionistic/expressionistic landscape I think it is

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

or as a cheerful display anywhere--or use them for a party game

that I couldn't walk away

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Chess Problems and Master Games, Pair of Late 19th/Early 20th C. Ledgers Turned Chess Scrapbooks wooden brooch and quite a lovely impressionistic/expressionisticI'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,