They did not know that they had a millionaire chess piece

Scotland Among so many memories, their father left them a millionaire when they did not know it. The family of the late owner of an antique dealer has in his possession a Lewis Island chess piece worth a millionaire.

When a Scottish family went with several objects to the auction house Sotheby's, located in London, Britain, he was very surprised that one of their pieces, cataloged as a game of Lewis's failures, weighs around one million pounds sterling, equivalent to about 1.3 million dollars. It will be auctioned in the coming days at an unimaginable price.

The figure was bought at the time for six dollars and was stored in a drawer for 55 years. The piece is known as Lewis Warder and is a 3.5-inch guard, a bearded figure with a sword in his right hand and a shield on his left side. In modern chess, this would be equivalent to a tower.

Lewis' chess pieces were found on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland, in 1831, but the circumstances of their discovery are shrouded in mystery. With 93 characters found, a knight and four guards had disappeared

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