A superbly crafted set designed around the original illustrations by Sir John Tenniel in the books 'Through the Looking Glass' and 'Alice in Wonderland'. These pieces have been painstakingly carved, molded with natural materials to guarantee strength, texture, color and weight. Hand-finished to exacting standards and highly attractive! We believe our sculptor has to be the future Michaelangelo of the chess piece world!
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A special note about this Chess Set:It is most relevant to point out that this set including our Limited Edition and character pieces designed to be used with this set are not made using a mass-production technique utilizing inexpensive latex molds as many others are. Every one of our pieces have been made individually by the hand of our sculptor using a different process [more consistent with pewter sets]. This process shows up much more intricate carving detail and imperfections where they exist! Latex molds have a tendency of 'smoothing out' some of the detail in the carving, particularly because they can swell slightly in the curing process. For example, even a thumbprint would show up using our technique and we believe capturing the entire carving art is so very important!This detail difference may not be too obvious from a web page comparison. As a result there are slight differences between the sets of the same type in terms of coloration and detail.
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