Calvert name check boosts chess set value
The white ‘rooks’ to this 19th century carved and turned wood chess set, offered by TW Gaze (18% buyer’s premium) in Diss in August 12, are stamped Calvert 189 Fleet Street to their bases.
John Calvert, who became the master of the Worshipful Company of Turners in 1819, was one of the t…