Ackermann & Co. Artist’s Box, 1827-1856 early plastic chess set kings surmounted with Maltese Crosses

kings surmounted with Maltese Crosses

brass carrying handle and two push-pull brass rods or buttons

many colour and black and white illustrations

the chessmen with wide turned circular bases

Hughes as Hazard

Ackermann & Co. Artist’s Box, 1827-1856 early plastic chess set kings surmounted with Maltese CrossesA Mahogany Artists box, by Ackermann & Co., 1827 1856 Repository of Arts, 96, Strand, London, the hinged lid revealing lift out tray with a set of watercolour blocks by Newman of Soho Square, a glazed pottery lidded pot, a glazed pottery mixing tablet, further glass jars with powdered pigments, the sliding drawer with small envelopes holding cut out templates, the inside of the lid with Ackermann & Co. trade label pinned to the wood, 26cm wide, 21cm