Old chess piece found
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A chess piece purchased for 5 pounds (US$7.50) by an antiques dealer in Scotland in 1964 has been identified as one of the 900-year-old Lewis Chessmen, among the greatest artifacts of the Viking era. Sotheby鈥檚 auction house said yesterday that the chess piece is expected to bring between 600,000 pounds (US$670,000) and 1 million pounds. The Lewis Chessmen are intricate chess pieces in the form of Norse warriors, carved from walrus ivory in the 12th century. Some 93 pieces were discovered in 1831 on Scotland鈥檚 Isle of Lewis. The piece, to be auctioned on July 2, is the first of the missing pieces to be identified.
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