Cybis chess set was checked out as a gift for Brezhnev
The Cybis company, founded in 1940 in Astoria, New York, by Boleslaw Cybis (1895-1957) and his wife Marja (1905-58) produced porcelain figures for almost 80 years before it closed in 2019. Among its best-known models is a chess set.
Ahead of what would become the Moscow Summit of 1972, President Richard Nixon sought a worthy dipl…