Chess Problems and Master Games, Pair of Late 19th/Early 20th C. Ledgers Turned Chess Scrapbooks for the student The one is housed in

The one is housed in a vintage medicine bottle with graduated measure in the sides

There is a some light black ink stain/spotting at upper left

as if a woodpecker went to work pecking away at them

with just a hint of purple

Grand Lake Stream is in the northeastern-most part of Maine

Chess Problems and Master Games, Pair of Late 19th/Early 20th C. Ledgers Turned Chess Scrapbooks for the student The one is housed inI'm not much of a chess player, but I love the game as the ultimate strategy sport, and as also as a metaphor. And as a huge fan of Duchamp, a chess devotee whose whole oeuvre can be read as a series of chess moves, all things chess related feel Duchampian to me. So I had to bring these home, ledgers turned chess scrapbooks, which sold me on their covers alone: "Chess Problems, 1892" and "Chess Games Played by the Masters in International Tournaments,