Answers.Body: <p>Here's the same set on ebay. More pictures of yours would be helpful.</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vtg-Ceramic-Duncan-Medieval-Style-32Pc-Chess-Set-Hand-Painted-Faces-Detailed-74/263416351119?hash=item3d54d6898f:g:GaoAAOSw4A5Y0WX2" rel="noreferrer">https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vtg-Ceramic-Duncan-Medieval-Style-32Pc-Chess-Set-Hand-Painted-Faces-Detailed-74/263416351119?hash=item3d54d6898f:g:GaoAAOSw4A5Y0WX2</a></p>
  
  <p>Perhaps the seller can help you learn more.</p>
  
  <p>If you Google for "ceramic duncan medieval chess", you'll get a lot of hits.</p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>Other than colors, that looks identical to sets my mother made for chess playing family and friends back in the 1970's and early 80's at a local ceramic studio. She made them from molded greenware (unfired clay) and hand painted them. It seems likely that the set in your picture was made in a similar fashion.</p>
  <p>Update: A similar set was displayed at the World Chess Hall of Fame. The first molds for sets like this were probably created in 1960's or 1970's by a company then known as Duncan Ceramics Products. As long as the link is good, you can see the set on display and read  more at:<br />
  <a href="https://worldchesshof.org/exhibit/featured-chess-sets-2022" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://worldchesshof.org/exhibit/featured-chess-sets-2022</a></p>
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  <p>I need help Identifying this.
  My grandfather was in ww2 and at one point in the navy he went to Russia and met a Russian Naval Officer to whom he traded for this set, and the officer said he got it from his grandfather, but I'd like some true speculation on it please.</p>
  
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Comments.Text: Can you precise the size of these chessmen ?
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Title: I need help Identifying where exactly this set came from
ThreadText: # I need help Identifying where exactly this set came from
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2018-01-14)
  
  ![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/4wTzj.jpg)
  
  I need help Identifying this.
  My grandfather was in ww2 and at one point in the navy he went to Russia and met a Russian Naval Officer to whom he traded for this set, and the officer said he got it from his grandfather, but I'd like some true speculation on it please.
  
  **Tags:** chess-set, identify-this
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: Can you precise the size of these chessmen ?  
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2018-01-14. Score: 5
  
  Here's the same set on ebay. More pictures of yours would be helpful.
  
  <https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vtg-Ceramic-Duncan-Medieval-Style-32Pc-Chess-Set-Hand-Painted-Faces-Detailed-74/263416351119?hash=item3d54d6898f:g:GaoAAOSw4A5Y0WX2>
  
  Perhaps the seller can help you learn more.
  
  If you Google for "ceramic duncan medieval chess", you'll get a lot of hits.
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_3 on 2018-06-06. Score: 1
  
  Other than colors, that looks identical to sets my mother made for chess playing family and friends back in the 1970's and early 80's at a local ceramic studio. She made them from molded greenware (unfired clay) and hand painted them. It seems likely that the set in your picture was made in a similar fashion.
  
  Update: A similar set was displayed at the World Chess Hall of Fame. The first molds for sets like this were probably created in 1960's or 1970's by a company then known as Duncan Ceramics Products. As long as the link is good, you can see the set on display and read more at:  
  <https://worldchesshof.org/exhibit/featured-chess-sets-2022>
  
  [![Image of chess set](https://i.sstatic.net/yMZ9v.jpg)](https://i.sstatic.net/yMZ9v.jpg)
  
  
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