![]() ![]() The result is a beautiful range of chess sets that have impressed us and our customers. This renowned producer of alabaster and marble products has been producing finely crafted products for long enough to make them the experts in their field. ![]() The Regency Chess Company now stocks a carefully selected range of very high quality Alabaster chess sets from the fine Italian craftsmen at Scali. Onyx chess sets became very popular during the craze for onyx products, these days however they are just one of the many types of chess set on the market. Onyx became extremely popular some years ago with a multitude of products being made in this tactile and attractive mineral. Each of these materials posses it’s own unique qualities but they are all naturally occurring minerals. Examples include Alabaster, onyx, quartz and granite. There are of course other other materials very similar to marble in appearance and feel. This method also allows it to be artificially coloured to any shade. However more industrial production lines will create products by powdering marble and then mixing it with a resin to effectively create liquid marble with can be moulded or fashioned easily with consistent results each time. Marble is a relatively soft rock that can be easily worked and polished. Pure white marble is created when very pure limestone morphs with dolomite protolith. The natural colour of marble depends on how it is formed and what other elements are in the lime stone. ![]() Marble is a rock that has resulted from a metamorphism of limestone and dolomite rocks. Marble has been used as a material for carvings and crafts for hundreds of years, so there is little surprise that marble and other stone materials have been used to fashion chess sets and boards. ![]()
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