Mosheh Oved

 

Source: Chess Review, November 1948, cover.

Mr. Herbert Halsegger sends us the following interesting photo of a Jewish collector of antiques - including chess. According to page 2 of the same issue, the person in question is:

Mosheh Oved was quite an interesting person. He wrote an autobiography, Visions and Jewels (London: Ernest Benn, 1925), and three items in his collection - not the chess set in the picture, alas - eventually found their way to the British Museum. It is remarkable that in his autobiography he spells his name based on the Yiddish pronounciation of his name, that is, "Moysheh Oyved."