A German chess set made in the second half of the 19th century by E. H. Schuetze in Berlin. The set has a king size of 9 cm. All pieces as busts on circular pedestals. The kings with bearded faces and a crown of the hoop crown type with an inner cap. The queens with long hair and a coronet. The bishops as knights with helmet and closed visor. The knights as rearing horses in a manner very typical for Schuetze. The rooks as turrets. The pawns as soldiers wearing a cap. All pieces with lead weights, which was a pleasant surprise and rather unusual for a figural set.

According to an old Schuetze catalogue, this is set "No. 2". The catalogue describes the material of the light pieces as yellow boxwood (German: "Gelber Buchsbaum") and that of the dark pieces as kingwood (German: "Veilchenholz"). Kingwood is named from several French kings (Louis XIV and Louis XV) in the 17th and 18th centuries that preferred the wood in the use of fine furniture. It is considered a true rosewood in the Dalbergia genus, and is among the densest of all rosewoods, with African blackwood (D. melanoxylon) being the only species with a higher average dried weight. Kingwood was usually imported from Brazil or less frequently from Mexico, where another closely related species is found, Dalbergia congestiflora, which bears a very close resemblance to kingwood and is sometimes called camatillo or Mexican kingwood (cf. https://www.wood-database.com/kingwood/).

The Schuetze catalogue listing this set gives the address as Kochstraße 35 in Berlin. This was the last of a total of five addresses under which Schuetze and his workshop were listed from 1873 onwards. For further information on the various addresses of the workshop found in the Berlin address books, please refer to the information provided for this set.