1868 Samuel Loyd The Chess Champions Carte de Visite (CDV)

 

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1868

1868 The Chess Champions

Editor: Samuel Loyd

Published by Fowler & Wells

389 Broadway N.Y., USA

1 Card 

This card is Carte de Visite (CDV) sized and thickness. There are 64 chess player portraits shown in a chessboard pattern. It is one of a number of similar chessboard layouts with small portraits produced by Samuel Loyd. Loyd was a famous chess player, puzzle writer and author. The card was Published and edited by Fowler & Wells, a publishing house at 389 Broadway, New York (for 20 cents or $2 per dozen as noted on the reverse of the card)

It is notable for the only known appearance on a card of any type for several chess champions including La Bourdonnais, Philidor and Von Der Lasa. Morphy, Staunton, Anderssen and Paulsen have portraits on the card as well. George Henry (Captain) Mackenzie appears on this 1868 card which predates his 1888 Goodwin Champions card.

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The text at the bottom reads:

The Chess Champions.

Entered according to Act of Congress, 1868, S. LOYD, in the Clerks Office of the Dist. Court of the U.S., for the So. Dist. of N.Y. 

Row 1 (top row):

BAYER, PETROFF, WELLS, KOCKELKORN, MEYER, MARACHE, SCHLESINGER, HARRWITZ

Row 2:

WILMERS, BROWN, BRENZINGER, BARNETT, LA BOURDONNAIS, PAVITT, STANLEY, KOLISCH

Row 3:

FULLER, FISKE, RICE, CHENEY, MACKENZIE, HAZELTINE, LOWENTHAL, LEONARD

Row 4:

ST. AMANT, ROSENTHAL, ALLEN, DE RIVIERE, VON DER LASA, KIDSON, GRIMSHAW, PRETI

Row 5:

PERRIN, COOK, JAENISCH, MORPHY, D'ANDRE, WALKER, GRAVES, SMITH

Row 6:

BILGUER, MEAD, JUEZEM, KOHTZ, MAURIAN, BOIRON, MORTIMER, FROM

Row 7:

PAULSEN, LOYD, ELDER, LICHTENHEIN, STAUNTON, KLETT, SCHULTZ, PHILIDOR

Row 8 (bottom row):

HANSTEIN, POTTER, LE QUESNE, WORMALD, THOMPSON, JOURNOUD, ANDERSSEN, REICHHELM