Accept no substitues. Jaques Also Make the Finest Collectors Staunton Chess Set and Boards
OFTEN IMITATED, NEVER REPLICATED!Handmade Folding Chess Sets and Board in a Cabinet Combination to Fulfill all of Your Chess Sets Requirements
EVERYTHING INCLUDED!Wooden Chess Set Complete Rules and complete Chess Playing Pieces- Chess is Suitable for CHILDREN ages 6 plus.
DID YOU KNOW? Jaques of London invented The Staunton Chess Set. They have been Making The Finest Chess Sets for Over 150 Years.
Chess sets from Jaques are the highest quality Chess sets in the world. The exquisite level of craftsmanship make our Chess sets the ideal choice for the serious Chess enthusiast or those who appreciate the finer things in life.
"TIME spent playing with Children is NEVER wasted"
"It's a HAPPY talent to know how to PLAY"
PLAY is the WORK of CHILDHOOD and the highest form of RESEARCH
"A Child's SELF-ESTEEM starts at HOME"
1939 - during the Second World War Jaques’ craftsmen are recruited by MI9 to design and produce ‘escape and evasion kits’ by concealing tools etc within games to help Allied prisoners of war escape. Maps are hidden between the cardboard of Jaques Ludo or Snakes and Ladders boards; precious currency is secreted, tightly furled in the wooden handle of a cleverly split Jaques Lacing Awl, Even the pegs of Jaques' Deck Quoits are hollowed out so that a tiny working compass can be hidden in them.
In 1795 The company was established by a country boy named Thomas a farmer’s son. The first of an unbroken line of eight generations to make indoor and outdoor games.In 1851 John Jaques II wins a place in sporting history and a Gold Medal for introducing Croquet into England at the Great Exhibition of 1851.More than 200 years on, the 7th generation of the Jaques family look with confidence to the future, knowing they continue to be in a unique position to teach the world to play.
