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Default HAND CREATED MAMMOTH IVORY CHESS-DESKS

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CERTIFIED HANDMADE IVORY MAMMOTH CHESS-MAN


Dear Sirs, Miss,


With regard to our recent offer of the unique (Netsuke, hand-carved)
Ivory Mammoth Chess-Sets, we herewith take pleasure with informing you
as follows.

The gallery has got together the best mammoth bone carvers of the
world, the specialists in history, designers and sculptors.

The production is absolutely exclusive. It's a symbol of prestige and
prosperity.


Rythmos Creative Advisory will commission the following companies with
reference to your exclusive order, the details pertaining to the Terms
& Conditions are stated below. Any further question or suggestion will
be taken into consideration.

At this moment in time we can offer you a introductionairy quotation.

Please note that the Vendors will be limited and the prices of the
unique hand-carved chess-sets start at appr. $ 1,000 for a 32-piece
hand carved unique chess set.


We would be pleased to accept your order :


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Every set is individual and wears an imprint of personal particularity
of the master and the designer.

PRICES INCLUDING FORWARDING, EXCL. SURCHARGES
Airmail 10 -15 days.


Barleycorn:

- $ 200 (wood)
- $1,500 (chessmen of mammoth tusk + board of wood )
- $2,000 (chessmen of mammoth tusk + board white square of mammoth
tusk)


Calvert:

- $ 190 (wood)
- $1,300 (chessmen of mammoth tusk + board of wood)
- $1,600 (chessmen of mammoth tusk + board white square of mammoth
tusk)
- $2,000 (chessmen of pressed amber + board of wood)


Selenus:

- $ 180 (wood)
- $1,200 (chessmen of mammoth tusk + board of wood)
- $1,600 (chessmen of mammoth tusk + board white square of mammoth
tusk)


Staunton:

- $ 150 (wood; folder chess board)
- $ 200 (wood; and the chess board with cells)


The prices of the Staunton chessmen made from ivory mammoth tusk.

We offer a more remarkable chess-set then the English company Jaques of
the 19 centuries.

The price of a chess set depends on the size of the chessmen.

The set "Library" with a 2.875" King and a 1.5" diameter base is
-$2,000;
The set "Standard" with a 3.5" King and a 1.75" diameter base
-$2,500;
The set "Small Club" with a 4.0" King and a 1.875" diameter base -
$3,000;
The set "Large Club" with a 4.375" King and a 2.0" diameter base -
$3,500;
The set "Super Large" with a 4.7" King and a 2.4" diameter base -
$4,000;
The set "Huge" with a 5.5" King and a 2.8" diameter base -
$5,000;

The price of a desk from wood and boards from wood for Staunton
chessmen -
$500.

The price of a box from wood and boards with white squares from a tusk
of
the mammoth - $1,000.


Exclusive sets:

"The Swan Lake" at the price of $1,000
"The Opposition set" at the price of $1,000
"The Flower set" at the price of $8,000

These sets are made of mammoth tusk. They are only made as a commission
in a three months period .

The price for each of the " 21 Century Design set " ( Mr. Kramnik, Mr.
Kasparov and Miss. Xie Jun designs) is $5,000.

The time of producing is one month.

Prices on the sets with the personal signature of the chess players are
complementary, the time of producing is 1,5 month.


Exclusive sets from The Mammoth Society Ltd:

Designs of chess collections are born in midpoint between the bone
sculpture and Florentine mosaic. So in the "Punic Wars" set, the
Hannibal's "chess army" fights with the Roman legions of Scipion,
and the chess desk looks lire the map of Mediterranean lands.

Collections are produced in small quantity (not more than ten), quality
is strictly controlled. And in every set you can find a certificate of
quality with an individual number of a company register and a signature
and mark of assay Mr. Anatoly Karpov, who was the only one sixteen
time's chess champion in the world.

Example Chess-desks exclusive design "Mammoth Society Ltd."
# "Richard Lion's Heart"
# "9th labor of Heracles"
# "Gaul`s campaign of Ceusar"
# "Trojan war"
# "300 Spartans"
# "Wars of Friedrich the Great"
# "Civil War in America"
# "Persian campaign of Alexander the Great"
# "Park pleistocene period ( mammoths, woolly rhinoceros, sabre-toothed
cats...)"
# "Park tertiary period"
# "Park creatceous period (battles of dinosaurs)"
# "Gladiators (new)"
# "Appointment with Gaudi (New)"
# "Reconkista (New)"
# "Augusto Rodin Master Sculpture"
# "The second Punic War"
# "Dwarves"
# "Lliad"
# "The Odyssey"
# "Mongolian Chess"
# "Love and wine"
# "The Seven Years war"
# The War of the Roses
# Etc.

Prices vary with the time spent by the master carver, - $10,000 to
$30,000 and are crafted only on specific wishes and after a detailed
proposal to the ultimate client and take about two months to produce.

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At this moment in time we can offer you a introductionairy quotation.

Please note that the Vendors will be limited and the prices of the
unique hand-carved chess-sets start at appr. $ 1,000 for a 32-piece new
unique hand carved unique chess set of genuine Ivory Mammoth.

We would be pleased to accept your order :
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.......and in reply I say!:

henstooth necklaces?


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