The most precious chess piece

[The most precious piece] According to the British "Guardian" reported on July 4.,In 1964, an antique dealer bought a waltz pawn for £5 in Edinburgh. Over the years, the piece has been placed in the drawer of the antique dealer’s daughter’s house.,Today, 55 years later, this piece was sold at Sotheby’s for £735,000 (RMB 6.2 million), which is exactly 140,000 times the purchase price of the year.,The auction house described the auction as "the most famous piece of chess that survived the medieval world."
Experts judged that this was part of the missing piece of Lewis Island chess, known as one of the miracles of the Middle Ages, and the only one in the private market.
Chess on Lewis Island is made of ivory.
One day in 1831, a man named Malcolm found the chess pieces in a dune chamber on the beach of Uig Bay on the island – eight kings, eight queens, sixteen bishops, fifteen knights, twelve bikes and nineteen pawns. It has been speculated that these pieces may be the remnants of four sets of chess. Among them, 82 pieces were collected in the British Museum in London, 11 in the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, and 5 pieces were missing.
It is speculated that Lewis Chess was made by Norwegian sculptors between 1150 and 1200. As to how it came to Lewis Island, there are many speculations, some people think it was caused by the shipwreck, others think that a businessman tried to take it out for preservation.
Lewis Island chess became famous after the film Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was released.