On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 22:20:04 -0700, John Neville
wrote:
Hi Ken,
Which model did you get? I just paid a small fortune for a 36H on ebay
(I'd been looking a long time) and asked the seller to package the
pieces individually. Well she didn't and two of the pieces were broken
in shipping. I need a maple king and black bishop.
John
The one I got of ebay was a beige and black set in cardboard box with
the number 35 on one side. ( only paid 30.00 for this sometime in the
last two years. I have an oldDreuke from 1976 (or 77) that was either
double or triple weighted, along with the long out of production
folding linen board. I retired these into storage about 7 years ago
when I relized how rare they were. Not sure of the model number on my
old set.
It seems Chesstopia is out of the ebony DUKE set. But ehy have a
picture of the old Dreuke plastic there and still some sheesham wood
sets.
http://www.chesstopiaworld.com/staun...estaunton.html
The ebony set is very nice. I collect sets and have all the ones
Chesstopia made. I have most of the House of Staunton sets and a few
of the Mark of Westminster. Eventually cost got too high to keep
collecting.
The old Dreuke is still my favorite plastic set. Followed by the old
Cavalier plastic set. House of Stanton and Legend both have some
pretty nice plastic sets mych cheaper than ebay has old Dreukes now.
http://www.houseofstaunton.com/HOS/PlasticCollBN.html 4" $ 70. 3.75
about 55 I think.
HOS has 3 models of plastic sets. I think they sell through Chess life
now.
http://www.houseofstaunton.com/
Legend has 2 plastic sets. I have the King's Indian with a interesting
Knight. I like it, my friend said he didn't like the knight looking
down. Taste.
http://www.legendproduct.com/ About $40.00.
I'm sure that there are other nice plastic sets, but these two are the
closest to the quality of the old Drueke that I have held in my hands.
Speaking of Ebay. The Cavalier set I have is the one from Pacific
Games like this one, but Black.
http://cgi.ebay.com/CAVALIER-CHESS-S...QQcmdZViewItem
Couple of old Player's choice (3 3/4 inch) under $ 100.
http://cgi.ebay.com/WOW-OLD-DRUEKE-3...QQcmdZViewItem
http://cgi.ebay.com/Drueke-Model-35B...QQcmdZViewItem
Sorry to run on. Anyway, good luck finding a nice set. I hope I helped
a little.
Ken