Baku Penguin Picture Request

Hello,

I'm hoping one of you (perhaps @cgrau) might be able to help me. I'm trying to find detailed pictures of the Baku Penguin Knight. I'm working on a custom reproduction and I'm looking for alternative knight faces - I'm not a fan of the "typical" Baku knight.

Here's an example from @cgrau blog of what I'm looking for:

https://sovietchesssets.com/2022/12/16/baku-pieces-from-leningrad-regions-artel-drevprom/

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Hey felonet not sure if this will help but I just seen one available on etsy. https://www.etsy.com/listing/1380935293/soviet-chess-set-bf2-vintage-30s-in-good

It’s a Botvinnik–Flohr II set, not Baku. I’m curious, did you ever get those penguin knights made?

If you’re still looking for photos, Alexander Chelnokov posted a set in his Facebook group. I would post it here, but he doesn’t appreciate his photos going public; so you will have to find it by searching ‘penguin’ in his group; three photos of two of his BFII penguin sets should appear.

I do think Chuck’s penguin knights look more gracious, and the heads actually do resemble narrow Baku knight heads a bit. The penguin knights from Alexander’s collection are a bit closer to the Capablanca knights. Below is a beautiful example from Sergey Kovalenko’s collection. As you can see the knights are more bear-like, with less slender heads.

This thread is about Baku and BFII penguin knights so it’s quite inappropriate to hijack this thread. Besides, your photos are too blurry to comment on.

I just realized, I added some BFII potbelly & penguin knights to an Etsy collection. Here are three sets with some nice photos of the knights:

https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/1838172988/soviet-chess-set-produced-by-the

https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/1096407045/soviet-chess-set-produced-by-the

https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/1847404417/soviet-chess-set-bf2-vintage-30s-in-good