A modernist chess set by G. Henke & Co. The pieces are of medium size (King size 85 mm), but very practical for play. The white pieces seem to be made of olive wood, the black side looks like walnut wood.

The Box is labeled with "Henke Art.Nr. 1712". The German company G. Henke & Co. was located in Bad Karlshafen, a small town right on the border between Hessia, Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia. It is unclear, if Henke was a manufacturer of chess sets or if Henke just imported and distributed them. According to the exhibition catalogue, Henke apparently provided some chess sets for the chess exhibition organised by Herbert Graetz on the occasion of the 1960 Chess Olympiad in Leipzig. The company operated until the early 1970's and then disappeared. The set displayed here is most likely from the 1950's or 1960's.