The Selenus Luxury Bone Chess Pieces - 4.0" King Wood Chess Boards and calculating long

and calculating long

the King and Queen pieces of the Christmas wood chess set features crowns that are made of  the opposing wood type

graced in most cases with notes

The collapse was completed when Rome itself was conquered by the Visigoth Odoacer and his men in the year AD 476

The Selenus Luxury Bone Chess Pieces - 4.0" King Wood Chess Boards and calculating longThe Selenus set you have is called the Tulip Style. This style was made in Germany from the 18th and 19th Centuries. They varied greatly in size and were almost always crafted from bone. In 1616 Augustus, the Duke of Brunswick Luneburg, published the first German chess book under the pseudonym Gustavas Selenus. Gustavas is an anagram of Augustus with one "u" replaced by a "v." The name Selenus comes from Selene, Greek goddess of the moon, a reference