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Vintage 1960s Erzgebirge German Wooden Chess Set Hand Painted Folk Art Chess & Checkers Complete Set
A vintage Erzgebirge chess set with 32 unusual and beautifully hand-painted wooden pieces with felted bases, 24 checker pieces, and a chessboard.
Vintage German Erzgebirge wooden chess set, dating from approximately the 1960s-1970s. The set consists of hand-painted wooden chess figures in red, green, black and gold, with humorous character faces, kings, queens, horses, towers and distinctive smoking pawn figures with small pipes.
The chessboard measures approximately 41 cm and comes with its wooden compartment storage display, together with red and green checker pieces.
The figures retain their original painted decoration and show minimal age-related wear, small paint losses and traces of use consistent with their vintage character.
Complete decorative chess and checkers set and an attractive collector's piece.
