Listing # 40347
| Listing Format: | Auction |
| Current price : | €1 277,00 |
| Starting bid: | €100,00 |
| # of bids: | 22 |
| Closes: | Auction is closed |
| Location: | Sweden |
| Started: | 2023-11-01 02:00:00 |
| Ended: | 2023-11-10 19:39:06 |
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| High Bidder(s): | holdco (763) |
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Adolf Norlin: Private collection on compositions. Unique item.
Book 1: Collection by Norlin titled "Schack-uppgifter af Adolf Norlin". (Chess problems by A.N) with partially pasted newspaper clippings 1870-1920s. 85 numbered pages plus 8 leaves unnumbered. Solutions for all problems are written in his own hand with further information on where and when the problem in question was published.
Book 2: 185 hand-colored diagrams, some embellished. Another hundred or so in black and white. All diagrams and figures drawn by hand. A total of 297 selected problems by approximately one hundred different composers.
Provenance: Acquired by Rolf Littorin on March 2, 1998 from Bengt Berg (*1921, Huddinge) who was a colleague of Norlin's son (Carl Arvid Norlin) in Enskilda banken, and from whom he got the book several years ago.
Adolf Norlin: One of the foremost contemporary Swedish problemists. *29/9 1858 + 15/8 1921. This is his own work and collection of compositions. After passing his exams in 1878, he became a second lieutenant in the Upland regiment. In 1909 he retired from active duty and was then appointed a major in the army. Norlin became interested in problem art, and his first problem was published in 1878 or 1879. He took part in a few problem tournaments and in some cases, he took home first prize, namely in the Münchener Neueste Nachrichten 1889. Manchester Weekly Times 1889-91 for three-movers and in the Hackney Mercury 1891 for a four-move self-mate.
In the later years of his life, Norlin was occupied with the classification of three-movers, a work he carried out in co-operation with A. C. White. He completed around 4,000 compositions and was just about to start his thesis on the subject, when death made further work impossible
Condition: Unique item with notes, comment and clippings. Both books shows some use and wear. Papers is occasionally creased with soil and minor moist damage. Delivered in a slip case.
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