Description
Un juego de ajedrez con las piezas representando a los patriotas cubanos del siglo XIX. Cada pieza pintada a mano, con una gran semejanza de cada pieza con el patriota que representa, cada pieza con el nombre de cada héroe nacional..
La caja para guardar las piezas en caoba de diferentes tonos, una belleza que no se puede apreciar con una simples fotografías.
A chess set, including box and board that is truly an
object of art, it is not something to play chess
with, although you could.
Each piece, with a sign with the names of the patriots
that each represents.
Each piece of the set is hand painted with a resemblance
of a Cuban patriot. Some of the XIX century patriots
represented are: Jose Marti, Antonio Maceo, Maximo Gomez,
Carlos Manuel de Cespedes, Ignacio Agramonte,
Narciso Lopez, and others including Father Felix Varela
in his religious clothing.
The Spanish soldiers are also
represented represented. The flags of Cuba and Spain
takes the places of the respective rooks.
Each piece is an average of approximate 3 inches high,
and very heavy at about 3 ounces a piece.
If you want to have an idea how heavy each piece feel,
hold 12 US quarters (25 cents coins) with your fingers,
and that would be less than 3 ounces. We don't know
the material used to make the pieces, but it feels
like a very heavy metal.
The hardwood box is made of what appears
to be mahogany, covered by a delicate thin
and extremely smooth film of
resin that was expertly applied. The top of the box
is the beautiful chess board. The box measurements are:
15.25 X 15.25 X 3 inches high.
We have tried to provide as many photos as possible,
no matter how hard we tried, the beauty of this set can
not be shown in photos.