(CNN)-- A $6 purchase turned into a major windfall for one family following an auction in London on Tuesday. The Lewis Warder, one of the most famous chess pieces in the world, sold for $929,000 at ...

The warder is the first of five missing pieces to materialize since the remaining chessmen’s discovery in 1831 Courtesy of Sotheby's In 1964, an antiques dealer from Edinburgh, Scotland, spent ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While $923,000 is a life-changing sum for the family, it’s final price remains just shy of the original $1.2 million mark that ...

WALLINGFORD, ENGLAND—A tiny chess piece that may have been part of a traveling set has been unearthed in the backyard at Wallingford Museum, located in southeast England. “It is one of only about 50 ...

A medieval chess piece missing for nearly 200 years has sold for £735,000 at auction after it was kept in a drawer by an unwitting family. The Lewis Chessmen piece - a 3½in (8.8cm) warder, the ...

A piece of a famous medieval chess set that had been missing for almost 200 years has sold at auction for £735,000. The warder - equivalent to a rook on a modern chess board - is part of a set known ...

Chess, a so-called ‘game of kings’, proved a great equaliser during the medieval era by celebrating intellectual prowess ...

(CNN) -- A £5 ($6) purchase turned into a major windfall for one family following an auction in London on Tuesday. The Lewis Warder, one of the most famous chess pieces in the world, sold for £735,000 ...

A £5 ($6) purchase turned into a major windfall for one family following an auction in London on Tuesday. The Lewis Warder, one of the most famous chess pieces in the world, sold for £735,000 ...