Note the shape of the pawn and the queen coronet symbol
Pub 1820
The chess symbols used in the diagram.
I would like to thank Mr. Jon Crumiller for this manipulation of the pieces in the previous diagram. All the bases are taken from the pawn in the 1820 book and the piece symbols from the same source.
This set was designed by John Jaques in 1828 for the famous chess divan in Simpson's in the Strand. It is of particular interest as not only is only one complete and undamaged set known, (in the collection of Gareth Williams) but it seems to have a coronet as the symbol for the queen, at a time when most other English sets had simple balls, and presages the Staunton pattern design of 1849. (20 years later)
Other common sets from the period 1820-1850 Bone Barleycorn. 1820 onwards, (pre and post dated by similar plain turned designs) The shape of the pieces was dictated by the material used. (cow bone)
Regence, from 1600 but this is c1800
19th C St. George style set. 98 mm king.
Designed 1838 this example later
So called Philidor set c 1840 Although Philidors actual set looked nothing like this
