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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.
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famous chess set 
Isle of Lewis (Trump's mother's island)