Chess Problems and Master Games, Pair of Late 19th/Early 20th C. Ledgers Turned Chess Scrapbooks wooden brooch that I couldn't walk away

that I couldn't walk away

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

I’ve only turned up only one reference to any Clair Bolic at all—born in Caldwell

hands and feet/legs up to the knees are all super sensitively hand-carved and painted

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

Chess Problems and Master Games, Pair of Late 19th/Early 20th C. Ledgers Turned Chess Scrapbooks wooden brooch that I couldn't walk awayI'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,