Retired products,Archived products and collections

Name:  gnome Lady

Code:  gnome ess

6.5cm height. Has an Australian gum nut for a hat. Probably makes her an Australian gum nut gnome

Name: Bearded dragon

Code:  $45

Small dragon carved a very long time ago. About the size of a chess piece in the dragon chess set ( from where I got the idea. )

Name: ELF ON EDGE

Code:  ELF 1

Size..9cm from hat to heal

Name: GNOME.

Code:  GNOME

LIFE SIZE GNOME, 5-cm. approx.

Name: Goblin-sitting

Code:  Gob/sit

Height 12cm

Name: Lord of the Rings goblet -ELVEN GOBLET/CANDLE HOLDER

Solid pewter flute displaying relief panels of the elvish swan ship. Works very well as a candle holder, tooth brush holder, you can drink wine out of it, gosh its multi talented. This is the second version of this goblet. The first version had a much longer and more decorated stem. It looked better but Selangor wanted it shorter.

Name: pixie in a half shell

Code:  pixie in a half shell

height 5cm approx. Polished pewter

Name: Snail riding and Gumnut hiding elves

Code:  snail elf and gumnut elf

Two small elves. 5 cm high. Polished pewter

Name: Snow dragon

Code:  $95. UNAVAILABLE AT THIS TIME.

Solid pewter dragon.Height 13cm.Unavailable at this time

Name: Wraith dragon

Code:  $45

height 8cm

Name: Lord of the Rings Pewter Tankard -ARAGORN TANKARD

Solid pewter LotR Tankard. No longer available.

height14.5cm

Name: Lord of the Rings Pewter Tankard -GANDALF TANKARD

Code:  GANTANK

Solid pewter LotR tankard. No Longer available

height 14.5cm

Name: Lord of the Rings Pewter Tankard -GIMLI/LEGOLAS TANKARD

Code:  GIM/LEG T

SOLID PEWTER TANKARD WITH PORTRAITS OF GIMLI AND LEGOLAS AND A SCENE OF THE BATTLE IN THE CHAMBER OF MAZARBUL. No longer available

height 14.5cm

Name: Lord of the Rings Pewter Tankard -HELMS DEEP TANKARD

SHOWS THE MASSING OF THE ARMY OF ORCS AT THE GATES OF HELMS DEEP. No longer available

height 14.5cm

Name: Lord of the Rings pewter tankard-FRODO/SAM

SOLID PEWTER TANKARD WITH PORTRAITS OF SAM AND FRODO, AND THE SCENE SHOWING FRODO WITH STING AT GOLLUM'S THROAT.  Not Available

height 14.5cm

Name: MEDIEVAL BOWL-PEWTER /GLASS

Code:  not avaiable at this time

A beautiful medieval framed glass bowl perfect for lollies or floating flowers or anything actually

Height...16cm.    Diameter....15cm.

Name:  BOTTLE STOPPER-GOANNA FLASHER

Code:  All Goanna bottle stoppers are $28

Name: GOANNA BOTTLE STOPPER-BIG RED-FIRST PRIZE

Code:  SWGBS1

Name: GOANNA-OLYMPIC TORCH

Code:  GOT

Name: Teddy Bear egg cup

Not available at the moment. Needs some more work on it..

Name: Teddy Bear egg cup,

Name: Teddy Bear egg cup, unscrewed.

when teddy is unscrewed he makes 2 egg cups

Name: Wizard of Id chess pieces, the metal version

Anita Blake <chris_ee123@yahoo.com.au writes...Here are the pics of our large Wizard of Id chess set with the short spear , weighs about 9 kilos great looking set with great detail .We also have an Alice set with the Jabberwocky , and Graemes new Bull and Bear set number one , plus others but are looking to collect one of each set so if any body has one please contact chris_ee123@yahoo.com.au

Name: World Chess Hall of Fame

Name: PLATE-THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING

Code:  No Longer available

Name: PLATE-THE HOBBIT

Solid pewter plate with high detail relief scenes showing such things as Gandalf and the Dwarves entering Bilbo's hobbit hole,bilbo and gollom,eagle.smaug,shelob,trolls etc. 25.5cm diameter.

no longer available

Name: PLATE-THE RETURN OF THE KING

Code:  No longer available

Name: PLATE-THE TWO TOWERS

Code:  No longer available

Name: Alice in wonderland chess set number 8 of 1st edition

Code:  Alice chess set

This set belongs to Darron Mathews and is set 8 from the first edition of my Alice in Wonderland series. Set numbers 1 to 5 of the first edition had the Jabberwocky as a Knight on the dark side. Sets 6 to 50 had the knight on a horse (the white Knight) instead.This set has the white Knight. The Jabberwocky was replaced because at that time we had great difficulty making it. All our castings are one piece castings and the Jabberwocky had something like a 95% casting failure rate.Being lazy we gave up trying to perfect the technique. (we did this a year later)This set was given as a present to Darron Mathews over 25 years ago and he was kind enough to contact me and send me some photos. The set is in perfect condition and he still has the original wooden box with rope handles and the inlaid copper shim and wood chess board we hand made for it back then.We eventually made 5 editions of 50 sets and then a 6th and final edition of 66 sets. A total of 316 sets were made.Set number 1 of the first edition was stolen from the Alice 125 exhibition . It is pictured in the book based on this exhibition.Darrons set is valued at around $10000.

Name: Alice in Wonderland chess set. Edition 1 number 43.

Ron Mills owned this set .He has sold it however

You will notice this set has 2 Jaberwocky, and they never made it past the first 5 or so sets so the number 43 could be wrong.. Every pawn is different and the set has all the other first edition characters. The only thing that appears to have changed from the first 2or 3 sets is that the Mad Hatters hat has a brick pattern, signifying it as a castle, wheras the first couple had a hat with the price tag on it. 

Sets in wonderfull condition and comes with one of our hand made copper and wood boards.

Name: Darron Mathew's

Code:  alice chess set

Darron Mathews Alice set 1/8 dark side.The pieces in this set were based on Sir John Tenniels illustrations for the original Lewis Carrol's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass and what Alice found there". Tenniel was a cartoonist for Punch magazine back in the late 18 hundreds and many believe that he modeled many of his character drawings on famous people of that time. The Queen- Queen Victoria, The Lion (the white Bishop) -- Prime Minister Gladstone, The Unicorn (the dark Bishop) --The leader of the opposition Disraeli , and the white and Dark Knights are caricatures of Carrol himself.The other pieces are The mad Hatter, (castles) and the pawns are the rabbit,walrus,tweedle dee and dum,Caterpillar,mock turtle ,griffin and Alice herself. She was made a pawn because in "through the looking glass"(which is based on a chess game)Alice starts as a pawn to the story and eventually becomes a Queen. In chess the only piece that can do that is a pawn

Name: Sandy and Allan Brown resin chess set.

This set was a very early resin chess set made around 1974. I was experimenting with metal powder filled resin back in 1968. I got the metal powder from a guy I knew whose father owned a metal sintering business (Shorelube I think it was called) The powder I purchased was the metal powder they swept up from the floor. Until this time I was filling the resin sets with bolts and metal bits from nail makers etc so that the sets would be heavy and not plastic like. The metal powder was easier to mix with resin and gave me the weight I wanted. I found out that if I polished the cast resin/metal pieces in a rotary polisher the resin on the surface would be polished off exposing the metal powder... the worlds first so called "cold cast metal" chess sets. This set however was the next step up from that time consuming process. We filled this set with powdered metal  but instead of polishing them we used the dry brush metalising process. ie dip a paint brush into metal paint , wipe of excess paint on the brush, them using dryish brush rub it over the piece. This leaves a metal finish on the highlights of the piece. The other interesting bit about this set is that the pieces were designed to be a one piece moulded with no seams. The design allowed the pieces to be popped out of the mould with no seam lines. This was before we invented a  seamless split moulding system. But thats another story.

Name: Stephen Storey Collection

Name: Stephen Storey Collection 2

Name: Stephen Storey Collection 3

Name: Wizard of Id chess set owned by E. Dylewski

This set, number 32 of thefirst and only edition of 250 sets is  owned by E Dylewski and is for sale . If you are interested please contact Ewaat mailto:ewadyle@gmail.com . It is in perfect condition and comes with the original handmade copper and wooden board and includes the original handwritten ownership papers. The set is made from iron powder filled polyester resin and surface treated with copper powder filled lacquer for the copper side and dry brushed with silver paint for the silver side. Looks really good considering it was made back in 1977.Good god, thats 32 years ago. Where on earth did the years go?.We only made 250 of these because the moulds broke down at about that point and we were ready to move onto another set by then. Those were the days.

Name: Wizard of id chess set ownership papers E Dylewski

These are the handwritten ownership papers for the Wizard of Id chess set owned by E Dylewski and the set is now up for sale.

Name: Chess set in a tube

This set was made about 22 years ago and only 25 of them were made. The idea was that the set would fit into a tube for packaging. The pieces were were shaped as quarter segments of a circle and hence 4 of the pieces formed a tube segment. The pieces were based on a medieval theme and the pawns were based on a ceramic chess set that I had made about 8 years earlier. I also tried making this set in metal powder filled resin but only made a few sets from this material mainly because I detest polyester resin and all things, particularly chess sets,  made in it.  

This set belongs to Chris who recieved it as a present 21 years ago

Name: Rodney from Chris Blampied's Wizard if Id chess set.

This set was first made in about 1974. It was made in metal powder filled polyester resin and then the outside surface was metalised with copper powder mixed with lacquer(the bronze side) and dry brushed silver frost(the dark side). We  discovered that we could polish the pieces and expose the metal powder in the resin and we did this for some medieval sets at the time but the process was difficult and time consumming.This finish was a compromise I suppose.I am quite surprised that this set looks so good after all this time. Chris brought this set from the original Mind Games shop in Chapel street in Melbourne

Name: Christopher Blampied

Code:  Wizard of Id chess set

The pieces in this set are... The king.-  the King of Id,  the Queen- Blanch,  the Bishop- the wizard, the Knight- Rodney, the Castle- the guard in the castle tower.

The pawns are represented by the other residents of the Kingdom of Id, known locally as Id-iots.

They are the spirit(in the barrel), Bung, Spook, the Duke, the peasant, Petty Fogger, Trout and Turn Key 

Name: Medieval chess set (,large).Resin and metal powder

This is a very early Resin and metal powder chess set of mine. Made in the early 70's. Still in good condition.Owned by Jackie Cannavo.One of the worlds first so called cold cast metal. Lets be honest, thats just a fancy word for metal filled plastic.

Name: Wizard of Id chess set /Michelle and Kelvin

This resin and metal powder chess set is owned by Michelle and Kelvin (  Mr_Cow@bigpond.com  ) It was made back in 1977 and is set number 234. It is in perfect order,( bloody surprising when you think how old it is) and they are thinking of selling it . Keep an eye out on Ebay or jump the gun and deal direct.

Name: Wanted and/or For Sale

1. Royce Keirl is wishing to purchase 3 pieces from the resin Wizard of ID chess set (see above) Anyone who has an incomplete set may like to sell him some of their pieces. Please e mail me and I will pass on your details. 

2. I have a request for one of my Asterix the Gaul chess sets. Anyone with one for sale please contact me.

3.Alice in Wonderland chess set. 

Name: Large castle on a hill with a village at the base

Height 27cm. I am still working on this castle. It's made of pewter and is hollow . The original idea was to have a light inside it and the light would shine out thru the windows. There was also going to be a largish crystal on the top turret and light would shine out thru it. Have sort of let this project slip thru to the keeper and to mix a few thing o's I have put it on the back burner until the cows come home to roost.(ha ha)

Name: Brad Moffett Collection

Name: Collection of Chris Quinn's better 3/4

This a a selection of Chris Quinns goblets.

Name: Gayle Baldock goblet stand

Name: Pam Balazer's Alice set for sale...

For sale: 5th edition Alice in Wonderland chess set.  Number 3 (stamped on the bottom of the Queen) of 50.  The sculptured figures are: The Queen of Hearts, The King of Hearts, The Lion (bishop), the White Knight (knight), Humpty Dumpty (castle or rook).  The eight pawns consists of 2 Alice, 2 Walrus, 2 Caterpillar, and 2 White Rabbit. 

This set is made from an alloy of tin, lead, antimony, copper and bismuth. plated with either German nickel or Florentine Bronze.  The main pieces have the date '1983' and Dr. Anthony's name cast into them. . I am asking $3,000 USD. I live in sunny Southern California and you can contact me by email at forest2000@earthlink.net.

Pam is also looking to buy a first or second edition Alice set. Contact her if you have one for sale.