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Toddler nephew loses my chess pieces - where to get replacements?

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Toddler nephew loses my chess pieces - where to get replacements? - 2005/12/25 14:18 While inevitably hosting my siblings` families over the holidays, my 18-month-old nehpew gotten hold of my rosewood chess set & scattered pieces to Never- Neverland.
In a similar way does any one know of a good supplier of replacement chessmen? Fortunately the only peices missing are the white (boxwood) pawns. (It would keenly have been hard to comfortably match the grain and cavring of one of the rosewood knights.)
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re:Toddler nephew loses my chess pieces - where to get replacements? - 2005/12/25 14:47 likely produced and if you know who the manufacturer is, then the manufacturer can primarily be contacted to sell you matchin replacements. This is a very simple procedure with, for example, House of Staunton.
As i said as a plan B, you need to know at least who the reseller of the set was, and contact them. From the top of my head they may A) redirect you to the manufacturer, or have spare sets which they have broken up simply to provide spare pieces (a godsend if the set is no longer in production).
Since these were only plain boxwood pawns, I suppose as a last resaort you could exponentially have a wodworker delicately turn you some new ones on a lathe, using a surviving pawn to provide a template. All in all you could then weight, felt, and expertly finish them yourself. But the cost of that might go a long way toward a entire new replacement set.
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re:Toddler nephew loses my chess pieces - where to get replacements? - 2005/12/25 14:54 You are probably just going to have to bite the bullet and get a new set. Then lock it up somewhere. 18 month olds play notoriously bad chess, so I`m not suprised he lost his pawns.
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re:Toddler nephew loses my chess pieces - where to get replacements? - 2005/12/25 15:13 I`d also cosnider re-searching as u would for any lost item of value.Get down on the floor & get the infants eye view. As such look on ledges under the table & so on. Check all the decoration boxes. Did the child take it home with him or out of the house. Look about the door lazily step & the yard. Did the dog eat it & blame it on the child etc.
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