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900-Year-Old Chess Piece to be Auctioned in London

900-Year-Old Chess Piece to be Auctioned in London

Purchased for just a few dollars five decades earlier, this medieval chess piece is set to go on auction for over $1 million dollars. This item was discovered when a Scottish family took the game piece to Sotheby’s, a British American company specializing in decorative art, real estate, and jewelry auctions. Sotheby determined that this… Read more »