My chess sets: green and red Russian (?) chess set

This is an occasional series of postings inspired by a brief discussion on the flight home from Turkey this summer. The flight attendant saw I was reading a chess book (quelle surprise) and, just making polite small talk, said she also liked playing chess, saying that depending on whether other crew members played, she would play on stopovers. Later in the flight she asked me if I had a chess set at home…and that set me thinking. How many chess sets do I have? And since then number is, well, shall we say, quite high, I thought I would blog about them especially those which ‘mean something to me’.

A friend gave me these pieces (no board) together with several other sets, when he had to have a clear out. In beautiful condition, I assume they are Russian, but don’t know for sure.

I also don’t know how old they are: I suspect they were made for tourists in Russia.

Rating

1/10: they don’t mean anything to me, just a nice design to look at.