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 The
Ager set: Mozarab chess set,
rock-crystal, Museu de Lleida Diocesa I Comarcal, Spain,
late 9th c - beg. 11th c.
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King and Queen from the same set
found at church of San Pere of Ager near Urgel, Catalonia,
beg 11th c.
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Knight found in Europe (where?) and made
in arabic style, 8th-9th c. (!?) according to C. Schafroth
, ivory, Musée du Louvre, Paris
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Scandinavian Knight, ivory,
9 / 10th c., Musée de Cluny, Paris
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 Rook, from castel of Freteval, Loir et
Cher, France (thanks to François Houdebert).
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Same piece with a better view to this
strange face on the side
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 Chariot,
deer bone or antler, 10th c., found at Loisy,
Musée des Ursulines,Mâcon
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King (?), deer bone or antler,
10th c., found at Loisy, Musée des Ursulines,Mâcon |
 Rook, deer bone, 978-1070, Pineuilh, Gironde, France
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Kneeled piece (Pawn?), 978-1070,
Pineuilh, Gironde, France
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Rook, rock-crystal, Late 9th - beg.
11th c., Domschatzkammer, Osnabrück
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Queen, hazeltree wood, 1008-1010,
Paladru Lake Colletière,
Charavines, Isère, France
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Aufin (Bishop), wood, 1008-1010,
Paladru Lake Colletière, Isère, France
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Rukh (Rook), bone, 1008-1010, Paladru
Lake Colletière, Isère, France
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Italian Chess pieces, bone
with ivory topping, late 10th c., found at Venafro,
Campania, Italy and once considered the oldest European
pieces, Museo archeologico di Napoli . Read a paper (in Italian)
from Gianfelice Ferlito
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Whale bone chessmen, Late
11th c., found at Witchampton, Dorset
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Chess piece from a private collection.
Bone. Maybe a King or a Queen. See beside for more views.
Estimated 11th c.collection (Collection Nicolas
Devigne)
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Scandinavian Chess pieces, bone,
Beginning 11th c. (or 12th?), Nuremberg, Germanisches
Nationalmuseum |

Scandinavian Knight, Bishop, Pawn,
deer bone, Beginning 11th c., Nuremberg, Germanisches
Nationalmuseum
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South Italian Elephant, elephant
ivory, Late 11th c., Musée du Louvre, Paris
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From a Byzantin wreck, wood?, Serçe
Limani, Anatolian coast (Turkey), 11th c.
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Scandinavian or German Chessmen,
deer bone, found at Ilot des Deux-Bornes, around Noyon,
Oise Beg 12th c., Musée du Noyonnais, Noyon,
France
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 Osnabrück set, wrongly said "Charlemagne"
(another one!), 12th c, rock-crystal.
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Scandinavian Chess pieces: Knight,
King, King and Rook Museo Nazionale del Bargello,
Florence, Italy
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King, ivory, 11th c., South of Italia
Musée du Louvre, Paris
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Rook (Tower), ivory, late 11th c
(or 14th?).,Italy Museo Nazionale del Bargello,
Florence, Italy
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King, ivory 12th c, France Museo
Nazionale del Bargello, Florence, Italy
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 The "Charlemagne set", elephant ivory, South Italia, Late 11th
c, Bibliothèque Nationale - Cabinet des
Médailles, Paris
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South Italian Kings, black and
red, front and back-side elephant ivory, beg. 12th
c., Museo Bargello, Florence, Italy
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South Italian Vizier, elephant ivory,
Beginning 12th c., Bibliothèque Nationale
- Cabinet des Médailles, Paris
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Queen, Spain, an Kings, ivory,
12th c., Wlaters Art Museum, Baltimore, USA
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South Italian Queen, ivory, Beginning
12th c., Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preussischer
Kulturbesitz, Skulpturensammlung
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Two Knights, French art 12th c.,
Museo Bargello, Florence, Italy
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German King, bone or antler, found
at Dorf Langenbogen near Mansfeld (Saxony) Mid 12th
c., ex-von Hirsch coll.
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Scandinavian Kong, whale ivory,
Late 12th c., Musée du Louvres, Paris
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French Roc (Rook), both faces,
elephant ivory, Mid 12th c, Musée du Louvre, Paris

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The
"Lewis
set", King, Queen,
Bishop, Knight, Warder, Pawn., walrus tusk Scandinavian
(Trondheim ?), Mid 12th c, British Museum, London |

Islamic-style Elephant (Bishop), Spain
or Sicily, 12th c., ivory The Metropolitan Museum
of Art
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 Alfil (Bishop), wrongly announced as
a Knight, castel of Metaplana, circa Ripoll, Catalunya, Spain,
13th c., ivory, (thanks to Alejandro Melchor)
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 The same piece and a dice, castel of Metaplana, circa Ripoll, Catalunya, Spain, 13th
c., ivory (thanks to Alejandro Melchor)
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Chessmen excavated from river Thames,
England, 13th c : bone King, wood King, unidentified
(Queen?), Bishop on top. Bishop, bone King side and
above view showing the hollow.. |

Scandinavian Bishop, walrus ivory,
Beginning 13th c., Copenhagen, Nationalmuseum
(The holes in the eyes were filled by jewels)
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Knight, walrus ivory, England, 13th
c. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, England
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Queen on horseback, walrus ivory,
Denmark, 13th c. Nationalmuseum, Copenhagen |

King or Queen (?), Yorkshire, England,
14th c. |

Bishop, ivory, 14th c., Germany
Bayerisches Nationalmuseum Munich, Germany
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King (I doubt, it should be a Queen),
ivory, 14th c., Danmark Copenhagen, Nationalmuseum
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Queen on horseback, walrus ivory,
Denmark, 14th c. Nationalmuseum, Copenhagen
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Wooden Queen known as the "Bryggens
Madonna" which has shrinked since it has been exposed
to air, Bergen Museum, Norway
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The "Bryggens Madonna"
photographied just when it has been exhumed from damp
layers. 14th c., Bergen, Norway
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King, ivory, front and back-side
from Ravenne, Italy 13th c., Museo Bargello, Florence,
Italy
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 Common bone chess set from 14th c., Scandinavia,
Musée National du Moyen-Âge, Cluny, France
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Bishop, walrus tusk, Northern Europe,
14th c. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
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Knight, Northern Europe, 14th c.
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
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King, ivory, Germany, 14th c., private
collection
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Bishop, walrus tusk, Germany, 14th c.,
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
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Bishop, ivory, Southern Germany, 14th
c., Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
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