Glass-on-velvet xiangqi set

Got this xiangqi set off eBay. 

The box itself isn't very exciting, I admit, but when you open it, you find a small glass xiangqi board, lying on a bed of velvet. The pieces, also made from glass, each have their own little comfy slot to the side of the board.

And this is what it looks like with the pieces on the board in their starting line-up.

Of course, you can take the board from the box, and that may well be the intention, but I really like keeping it on its velvet bed. 

Unique set in my collection, for sure!

Jurassic Park set

I'd seen this Jurassic Park chess set for sale on Amazon, and popping up on eBay plenty of times, but always for prices way above what I was willing to part with. Until one day quite recently ...

The set has the usual fold-out cardboard board, whereas the pieces are high-quality plastic.

Pterosaurs act as pawns, sauropods as rooks, Velociraptor as knights, Dilophosaurus as bishops, spinosaurids as queens and (obviously) T. rex as kings.

Worth waiting for!