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David DeLucia Library : Other Gems First American Chess Congress – original photo David DeLucia Library : Other Gems First American Chess First American Chess Congress Declaration Congress game score David DeLucia Library : Other Gems First and last page of the contract to the first World Chess Championship, Steinitz v Zukertort, 1885. David DeLucia Library : Other Gems Three different colored bindings, all signed by Wilhelm Steinitz. David DeLucia Library : Other Gems First and last past of contract to the second World Chess Championship, Lasker v Steinitz, 1894. David DeLucia Library : Other Gems Nürnberg 1906 and Hamburg 1910 signed postcards David DeLucia Library : Other Gems Karlsbad 1911 picture postcard signed by the participants David DeLucia Library : Other Gems Original photo of the participants of the 1924 New York chess tournament, signed by all, with 156 original game scores. David DeLucia Library : Other Gems Complete set of game scores from the New York 1927 chess tournament. David DeLucia Library : Other Gems New Yorker Staats Zeitung Manhattan Chess Club Challenge Cup Visitors’ Book, 1877-1913 David DeLucia Library : Other Gems St. Louis Chess Club Visitors’ Register David DeLucia Library : Other Gems David Friedmann’s, Köpfe befühmter Schachmeister - Portfolio of 12 lithographs of chess players David DeLucia Library : Other Gems Man Ray letter with trophy for Reshevsky-Benko chess match David DeLucia Library : Other Gems Fattorini & Sons chess clock, circa 1880s David DeLucia Library : Other Gems Duchamp & Halberstadt’s, Opposition and Sister Squares, inscribed to Louis Persinger by Marcel Duchamp. David DeLucia Library : Other Gems Selenus, 1617, presented by v.d. Lasa, signed by Howard Staunton David DeLucia Library : Other Gems Greco Manuscript presented to Howard Staunton, 1853 David DeLucia Library : Other Gems George Allen’s personal copy of The Life of Philidor, with copious notes David DeLucia Library : Other Gems Numerous signatures from the 1939 Torneo de las Naciones – Buenos Aires David DeLucia Library : Other Gems Chess set from the 1966 Olympiad - Havana, Cuba Presented to team captains. David DeLucia Library : Other Gems Program from the Nottingham 1936 chess tournament, signed by the participants.

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