When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A medieval chess piece, one of five that have been missing for nearly two centuries, was chilling ...

(CNN)-- A $6 purchase turned into a major windfall for one family following an auction in London on Tuesday. The Lewis Warder, one of the most famous chess pieces in the world, sold for $929,000 at ...

The warder is the first of five missing pieces to materialize since the remaining chessmen’s discovery in 1831 Courtesy of Sotheby's In 1964, an antiques dealer from Edinburgh, Scotland, spent ...

A medieval chess piece which has been missing for nearly 200 years is set to rake in £1 million at auction. The family in possession of the treasured piece had kept it in a draw for 50 years before ...

A piece of a famous medieval chess set that had been missing for almost 200 years has sold at auction for £735,000. The warder - equivalent to a rook on a modern chess board - is part of a set known ...

WALLINGFORD, ENGLAND—A tiny chess piece that may have been part of a traveling set has been unearthed in the backyard at Wallingford Museum, located in southeast England. “It is one of only about 50 ...

(CNN) -- A £5 ($6) purchase turned into a major windfall for one family following an auction in London on Tuesday. The Lewis Warder, one of the most famous chess pieces in the world, sold for £735,000 ...

A £5 ($6) purchase turned into a major windfall for one family following an auction in London on Tuesday. The Lewis Warder, one of the most famous chess pieces in the world, sold for £735,000 ...

A £5 ($6) purchase turned into a major windfall for one family following an auction in London on Tuesday. The Lewis Warder, one of the most famous chess pieces in the world, sold for £735,000 ...