This chess set, which I found at Collectors Decanters & Steins in Ohio, is too cool. The proprietor of the store, Lavon, explained to me that the set basically tells the story of Jack Daniel’s life (the iconic bottles, the sugar maple charcoal filters used to make Tennessee whiskey, etc), and said that “the most important” piece in the set is the safe. I asked why, and it turns out that a safe was what killed Mr. Daniel in 1911. He arrived at work early one morning and was unable to open the safe, having forgotten the combination (he had a notoriously poor memory for such things). He kicked it in frustration, injured his toe, contracted blood poisoning, and died soon afterwards. Some say that Jack Daniel left us not only Tennessee whiskey, but also a valuable lesson:

Don’t get to work early.