Medieval Chess Piece

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A newly discovered medieval chess piece riddled with a history of equal parts fascination and mystery is set to head to auction later this summer. Bought for £5 by an Edinburgh antique dealer in the 1960s and having spent the last five decades stuffed in a dress drawer, Sotheby’s now estimates the 12th-century piece will bring in between £600,000 and £1 million ($760,000 and $1.26 million).

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Medieval Chess Piece

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