The Lewis Chessmen, (Norwegian?) Finish:Rolled In mid-December 1867 two Fenian

In mid-December 1867 two Fenian prisoners were being held at Clerkenwell

'Sir Cecils budget for paying the national debt'

'Anglo-Gallic salutations in London - or Practice makes perfect -'

beside a table bearing lighted candles

Bridewell Hall

The Lewis Chessmen, (Norwegian?) Finish:Rolled In mid-December 1867 two FenianThe Lewis Chessmen, (Norwegian?), c1150 c1200, (c1920). Nine ivory chess pieces from a collection of ninety three found at Uig on the Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. The pieces consist of elaborately worked walrus ivory and whales' teeth in the forms of seated kings and queens, mitred bishops, knights on their mounts, standing warders and pawns in the shape of obelisks. A board large enough to hold all the pieces would have measured 82