Rowling’s “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone,” according to the statement. These chessmen have inspired many stories and folktales, such as the magical chess pieces in J.K. The family recently brought the piece to Sotheby's. In 1964, an antiques dealer in Edinburgh bought the missing piece for five pounds, recording the purchase in a ledger as an "antique walrus tusk warrior chessman." The item was then passed down through his family, and sat in a drawer for 55 years, where the antique dealer's daughter would sometimes take it out to admire its uniqueness, according to the statement. This newly discovered warder was one of the missing pieces, and the first one found from the set since their original discovery. (Image credit: Courtesy of Sutheby's)īut while 82 pieces from the hoard are now displayed at the British Museum, and 11 pieces in the National Museum of Scotland, one knight and four warders - needed to complete these chess sets - had been missing since the 19th century.
Most of the medieval chess pieces that comprise the Lewis hoard were found in 1831 on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides off of Scotland.
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