Reproduction of the Drueke Players Choice Series Chess Pieces - 3.75" King

Decades ago, I touched and later played a Drueke (Droo-Key) chess set and board more than once. The quality was there! The Drueke was a family heirloom from India, and still with family after more than five generations of long-lived adults. The pieces had enjoyable heft, which means weighted. The chess set was valued by its young, college-age caretaker, who was entrusted with it by an older male relative. The attractive inlay stripe was loosing after 150 years. The set had traveled by elephant, bicycle, horse, Arab dhow with lateen sail. And the caretaker knew the names of people who were Drueke players in his family and other families. The quality was there, and the championships played in major cities and cane huts. Durability, wind, rain, sun, wrongful storage, careless handling. The Drueke survived it all. The modern reproduction seems overpriced on one website. Drueke - as a business - entered difficulty times in the first decade of this century, according to the Internet. The final original Drueke was sold 2010, in the Internet is correct. I would hope there is a company overseas that has Drueke in its business plans. And Drueke chess boards are a proper way to fight colonialism and pass information, to overcome invasions by foreign powers. Perhaps there is merit to the chess-family history of Drueke that a person who was racially prohibited from train-travel, could board and ride a train first-class if a Drueke Chess Set and board were in hand. The common people and…