28 July 2010
Mid-century aluminum chess set
Hello Everyone!
As usual when a chess set pops up on eBay for sale, all chess lovers want to check out the details whether they intend to buy it or not. Here is one such latest mid-century retro chess set we found here.
This rare American mid-century chess set was designed by Austin Cox for Austin Industries. It is smaller of the two modernist styled extruded aluminum chess sets designed by Cox and manufactured by the Alcoa Aluminum Company
The white pieces are in natural aluminum while the black pieces are bronze anodized on all their non-cut faces. All pieces have their bases stamped with “© 1966 AE
This set comes in it’s original wooden (wall mountable) presentation display case with blue Plexiglas sliding lid. The Pawns measure 1.5″ high. and the Power pieces are 2″ high.
From Alexandra Kosteniuk’s
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