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Lewis chessman bought for £5 sold at auction for £735,000 Tue 2 Jul 2019 10.52 EDT It was identified as a missing piece from a hoard that was discovered in the sandbanks of Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides, in 1831. The chessmen are well known in popular culture thanks to the children’s television series Noggin the Nog and Ron Weasley’s perilous chess game in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. https://web.archive.org/web/20191101224500/https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/jul/02/lewis-chessman-bought-for-5-sold-at-auction-for-735000 famous chess set Isle of Lewis (Trump's mother's island)