Vintage 1962 Peter Ganine Conqueror Sculpted Chess Set 4 5/8" Kings Complete

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Seller: popper77 ✉️ (9,904) 100%, Location: Sammamish, Washington, US, Ships to: WORLDWIDE, Item: 361031281455 Vintage 1962 Peter Ganine Conqueror Sculpted Chess Set 4 5/8" Kings Complete.

 

This is a Vintage "Conqueror Sculpted Chess Set by Ganine", based on the sculptured design of iconic Russian-American Designere and Sculptor, Peter Ganine(1900-1974) , copyright 1962, manufactured in U.S.A. by Pacific Games Company, North Hollywood, California, as Set No. 1489.

This relatively large set has 4 5/8" Kings and 3 1/8" Pawns.  The set is complete with all 32 weighted and felted pieces (see minor condition issues below), folding board, multi-fold, two sided instruction sheet, and original box with all printed and flocked cardboard inserts.  The weighted kings weigh 56 grams and the pawns weigh 30 grams.

Biographical information on Mr. Ganine, his work, and this and other chess set designs can be readily found online.  Along with the information I reviewed was the statement: "When Ganine gave human faces to chess pieces, he introduced the 'first major change of design for chess sets in more than a century' ".  We have bought and sold several of the sets in that design in various sizes in the past.  If you are not familiar with that iconic set, you should look at a few of the many images available online.

The large plastic pieces are painted in silver (for the "white" pieces) and gold (for the "black") pieces as seen.  The pieces are nicely detailed with many unique design elements including the minarets on the sides of the rooks / castles, the unique design of the rearing horses on the knights, and the slim, graceful design of the kings, queens, bishops, and pawns.  Each piece has the Peter Ganine name, copyright symbol, 1962 date, and "U.S.A.".

The folding board, covered with marbleized patterned paper, has outer dimensions of 16"x16" and inner playing area dimensions (including narrow red border) of 15"x15".  The squares are 1 7/8".

At the time of the original listing, we also had three other chess set and chess board listings in our ebay store, as well as a variety of vintage game, dice, playing card, and card box listings.

Condition:

Overall the set is in very nice condition, but the following fairly minor issues were noted with the pieces and other set elements:

  • Chess pieces
    • the pieces are weighted and felted.  As I set up and replaced the pieces, I noted about three of the principal pieces and about five pawns where you could tell that the weights came loose inside the hollow pieces.  This was apparently a common design / manufacturing issue with this particular design set because I found the same issue noted on other examples of this set online.
    • I noticed one piece with the black felt missing.  This is shown on a closeup photo pointed out with an arrow.
    • The paint is intentionally applied to the pieces in a slightly "streaked" manner to help provide a faux antique appearance.  I noticed that on a number of the pawns in each color, the central area of the robes between the arms with clasped hands below, have less paint on some pawns than others.  This is shown for a few of the gold pawns in a closeup photo.  This appears to be simply a minor artifact and variatioin of the original application of the paint on the pawns
  • Folding Board - the board is in excellent condition
  • Instruction sheet - the instruction sheet is in very good condition with minor signs of normal handling and reading
  • Original Box
    • the box lid has one split corner and areas of light to moderate edge wear, both exposing the underlying cardboard, along with one adjacent small scrape on the black paper on top near an edge
    • the black paper on the lid shows some minor wrinkling and puckering.  This appears to me to be an artifact of the original gluing on of the paper, a common issue seen on game boxes, especially vintage and older ones.
    • one side panel has a tear all the way through up to where it meets the top surface as seen in a closeup photo marked with an arrow

The set and all of the game elements are offered as found / as seen / as described.



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  • Condition: Used
  • Game: Chess
  • Brand: Peter Ganine Design / Pacific Games Hollywood
  • Gender: Boys & Girls
  • Year: 1962
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States

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