Make your own chess sets with these unusual British mold sets. With care these molds can last many years.
Many pieces also make excellent characters for fantasy games. They can either be painted in multicolors or left in natural colors (white) and pigmented (black). Chess pieces can be cast in either plaster, cement or resin (casting material not included in price).
Chess sets comprise of a minimum of 9 molds (1 of each piece plus 4 pawns).
The Chinese claim to have invented chess some 2000 years ago during the Hansing campaign.
Here is a fine example of a beautifully carved 19th century Chinese chess set.
The original set was carved in Indian Ivory with each perfectly finished piece mounted on an octagonal base.
King is approximately 12 cm (4.7 inches) tall, and a full set requires approx 3 kg of cement.
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