Here is a very unusual Staunton chess set and a worthy addition to my Philippine collection. I labelled it "Anglo-Philippine", because the set was apparently made on order of a British company based on the Isle of Jersey, but was manufactured in the Philippines. There are many examples of European companies who had chess sets made in the Philippines and then exported for distribution in Europe. These export sets were commonly made in the Philippine Staunton design. In this case, however, the design is not even close to the Philippine Staunton pattern, but looks very much like an English Staunton type (including green felts rather than the red felts usually used for Philippine Staunton sets).

The set came in a box with a label on the underside. The label reveals that these sets were supplied by Jersey Wood Enterprises Limited with its head office at 25 Providence Street, St. Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands. A search in the registers shows that the company was incorporated on 6 November 1973 and was dissolved on 21 June 1983. The last registered address was Wellington House, 17 Union Street, St. Helier, Jersey. Both addresses are located in the center of St. Helier just 500 m apart from each other. There is not a lot of online information available on Jersey Wood. In terms of games, they were known for their own version of "Shut-The-Box", a type of dice game. The manufacturer is not named on the label, but on the lower right corner the label reads "Made in the Philippines".

The king size of the set is 8.7 cm. The pieces are not weighted. As for the wood types used, I am not 100% sure. While Philippine Staunton chess sets were usually made of narra wood for the white pieces and kamagong wood for the black pieces, the wood types used for this chess set are not clearly identifiable. The wood used for the white pieces does not look like narra, but seems to be acacia wood. The black pieces were made of a dark brown, almost black wood with visible lighter grain. They could be kamagong, but in this case not with the usual fiery yellowish grain, but a less obvious light brown. The "Shut-The-Box" games manufactured by Jersey Wood were made of teak and rosewood, which is possible combination. Nevertheless, the use of rosewood is in my experience not typical for the Philippines, so my personal guess would tend towards the aforementioned combination of acacia and kamagong.