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This mixed color is not intended, but caused by the fact that this was a
cut-and-past job on a photograph that did display the piece type
alternately in black and white. (I didn't mind too much, though, as the
olor difference hep to reveal how the piece is put together.) I don't
have this particlar piece set, and the same construction applied to my own
pieces would not nearly give such an estheticaly pleasing distribution of
heights of the combination pieces as this one.

In fact, sets where it works so well are rare: most of the time the Rook
is too tall, or the Knight base too low. Sometimes King and Queen do not
have their collars at the same height, or the Rook top is too narrow to
stably invert it, or make credible Cannon barrels. The Rook should extend
to the height of the K and Q collars to get the nice regular progression
of heights towards the center seen in the setup of the unspeakable
variant.

I have already been looking around for piece sets in shops over here to
actually do this, but so far without much luck.