Artnet

A Lewis Chessman, Bought for $6 and Then Tucked Away in a Drawer for Decades, Just Sold at Auction for Almost $1 Million

A newly discovered medieval chess piece attributed to the Lewis Chessmen trove, which had been tucked away in a drawer for years after being purchased for just £5 (about $6) in 1964, sold for £735,000 ...
Artnet

A Long-Forgotten ‘Lewis Chessman’ Piece That Languished in a Drawer for Decades Could Fetch $1.2 Million at Auction Next Month

A medieval chess piece from the famed Lewis Chessman trove, the most revered collection of chess pieces in the world, first discovered on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides in 1831, is ...
The Atlantic

The Lewis Chessmen, Up Close

Today, for the first time, I got to see some of the magnificent Lewis chess pieces first-hand, in Edinburgh's National Museum of Scotland. I wrote about them in my book The Immortal Game (excerpt ...
Sportskeeda

Six Lewis Chess pieces to go home to Scotland!

The Lewis Chessmen are one of the most fascinating and oldest chess sets in the world. They are currently housed in the British Museum. But, now at least six of these famous chess pieces would return ...
BBC

Episode Transcript

Libby Purves meets actor Brian Cox and singer June Tabor. Coming up at: 21:58 Weather View full schedule Lewis Chessmen (made twelfth century). Walrus ivory and whales' teeth; found on the Isle of ...