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Photo album from the Easter Chess Congress and BCF congress 1929.

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24 original photographs from Ramsgate Easter Chess Congress Team Practice Tournament, 1929 and 8 original photos from the British Chess Federation Congress 1929. The album also includes a few other photos as well as 20+ Postards with chess motifs i.e a series of 12 humorous black-and-white postcards by J. Rotgans, from the mid-20th century publishing house van Goor Zonen, Gouda. Size approximately 14 x 9 cm.

Photos includes Sir G.A. Thomas, J.R. Capablanca, G. Maroczy, E. Znosko-Borovsky, A. Soultanbeieff, E.G. Sergeant, G. Koltanowski, T.H. Tylor, Miss V. Menchik, H.E. Price, A. Rubinstein, W. Winter, F.D. Yates, R.P. Michell, M. Sultan Khan as well as many others. 

Condition: Well worn photo album. Front cover and most pages are loose. Photos are generally well preserved. A unique item. From David DeLucias Chess Library.

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