Lothar Schmid | A group of six pieces of memorabilia from his personal collection, 1960s-90s

Chess memorabilia from the personal collection of Lothar Maximilian Schmid (1928–2013), comprising:

(i) Caricature portrait of Bobby Fischer playing chess at the 14th Chess Olympiad, black ink with coloured washes on paper, captioned "Fischer USA Leipzig 1960", 560 x 395 mm

(ii) Caricature portrait of Bobby Fischer, his body as a chess piece, black ink with blue and red highlights on paper, A4 (297 x 210 mm), mounted on card

(iii) Sveti Stefan, caricature portrait of Bobby Fischer bearded and wearing a cap, head and shoulders, blue ink on blue paper, signed and dated, captioned "Fur Lotar Smidt", 1992, 645 x 500 mm

(iv) a gilt decorated plastic drinking horn labelled "Skaksamband Islands", produced by the Icelandic Chess Federation for the Spassky-Fischer World Championship, Reykjavík, 1972, height 135 mm

(v) a tooled leather sun visor for the World Chess Championship between Anatoly Karpov and Viktor Korchnoi in Baguio, Philippines, 1978

(vi) commemorative montage photograph celebrating the 100 year jubilee tournament of the Bamberg 1868 Chess Club, 1968, framed (frame size 255 x 315 mm)

These items all relate to Schmid's life in chess. A native of Bamberg, he came second in the 1968 tournament celebrating his home club's centenary, in which eight international grandmasters (including Keres, Petrosyan, and Ivkov) and eight Germans competed. He was also part of the West German team at the 1960 Olympiad in Leipzig. Schmid was famously arbiter at the 1972 Championship but also at the controversial 1978 World Championship won by Karpov, and at the 1992 Spassky-Fischer rematch.