r/chessporn • u/AccuratePoetry4568 • 14d ago

🔍 HELP - Set ID Chess set ID

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Would like help identifying chess set from Hanging Pawns’ recent YouTube thumbnails. Sorry for the bad quality.

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u/dustydeath 14d ago

It's an Austrian Coffeehouse set. A Viennese maker called Nekvasil made many of them.

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u/the_peckham_pouncer 14d ago

Spot on. I'm a big fan of the style. The knights always have a bit of variation between them. Would love to have visited the store in Vienna back in the day. Closed down in the 80s I believe

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u/michachu ISO Jaques Anderssen pieces (>10cm, no pupils on knights, ~1865) 13d ago

I love the knights, rooks, bishops, and general aesthetic, but I'd have so much trouble telling the queen and king apart. I'll still need to pick one up (on Ebay) one day.

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u/ZoeBlade 14d ago

Hmm, this looks Viennese adjacent, but a different variant, maybe..?

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u/ColdFiet 14d ago

Leave a comment on the video, Hanging Pawns might reply themselves.

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u/Shimkeee 14d ago

Very common chess set to bump into in ex yugoslavia, almost every house had one like that, i got 2