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For Sale Meerschaum Chess Set - 2007/02/05 18:42
Hello...
I joined this site just now. Very good site congrats. i like chess..
I have Meerschaum Chess Set for sale. The price is $300 (PayPal). I can send anywhere in the world. If you are interested in , im online generally.
MSN: altayunutkan@hotmail.com
The images:
http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/7521/21330312jt8.jpg
http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/9231/62589280zz8.jpg
http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/7637/75210574gu3.jpg
This is a hand crafted art of the masters. And is made of high quality Eskisehir meerschaum which is very well known by experts. It is approximate 4,5 kilograms. And there is a special box.(image 3)
What is Meerschaum?
Meerschaum is a soft white mineral sometimes found floating on the Black Sea, and rather suggestive of sea-foam (German: Meerschaum)
Most of the meerschaum of commerce is obtained from Asia Minor, chiefly from the plain of Eskişehir in Turkey, between Istanbul and Ankara, where it occurs in irregular nodular masses, in alluvial deposits, which are extensively worked for its extraction. It is said that in this district there are 4000 shafts leading to horizontal galleries for extraction of the meerschaum. The principal workings are at Sepetdji-Odjaghi and Kemikdji-Odjaghi, about 20 miles southeast of Eski-Shehr. The mineral is associated with magnesite (magnesium carbonate), the primitive source of both minerals being a serpentine....
For More Info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meerschaum
Thank you so much CheSSCircle.net...
Have a nice day..
Post edited by: nyana, at: 2007/02/12 09:11
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