The Lewis Chessmen, (Norwegian?) Finish:Rolled 'Sir Cecils budget for paying

'Sir Cecils budget for paying the national debt'

'Anglo-Gallic salutations in London - or Practice makes perfect -'

beside a table bearing lighted candles

A man and his dog stop to rest in the foreground

Brooklyn Bridge

The Lewis Chessmen, (Norwegian?) Finish:Rolled 'Sir Cecils budget for payingThe Lewis Chessmen, (Norwegian?), c1150 c1200, (c1920). Nine ivory chess pieces from a collection of ninety three found at Uig on the Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. The pieces consist of elaborately worked walrus ivory and whales' teeth in the forms of seated kings and queens, mitred bishops, knights on their mounts, standing warders and pawns in the shape of obelisks. A board large enough to hold all the pieces would have measured 82