Transatlantic rook flies as souvenir chess piece sells at Oxford auction
As implied by an extensive inscription, this souvenir chess piece was produced by Carlo Joseph and Arthur Alphonse Giuliano, sons of the celebrated Italian artist jeweller Carlo Giuliano, to commemorate a chess match played via telegraph in 1897.
To mark the completion of the Trans-Atlantic telegraph, a game began on May 31, 1897, between team…