Maybe it's Russian and they were trying to protect the Faberge Eggs?
We were playing nonstop between about 1-30 to 5-30/6-00. Soooo...4, 4.5 hours, maybe??
One of my vintage sets got a solid workout today!! My brother, my cousin, her husband, and I, all know how to play mahjong, having learned it at...
I hope @Marote doesn't mind -- but I picked this up today at my local charity shop! Bone & Bamboo, a vintage souvenir set, probably from Hong...
It was really common (especially in older times) to mark products with the name of the reigning monarch of the time. For example, public mailboxes...
That Bakelite set is beautiful, definitely vintage, and worth the price.
Yeah, they're knocked-up cheaply in China, and sold overseas. I mean if you don't care what it is, then it's just a cheap, cheerful mahjong set,...
Set 3 is almost certainly modern. They make them up that way to make them look older, but it's not very convincing.
The two solid silver Peranakan Chinese belts I bought. All-up, it's about a pound of silver! [ATTACH]
Yes, looks complete.
Mahjong tiles were traditionally made by hand, by dovetailing bone tops and bamboo bases together. The more BONE you have, the higher quality...
Sorry I couldn't answer this sooner - I just got back from a trip overseas!! Literally. I got off the plane two hours ago. Anyway. ONE BAMBOO...
Thanks. The two pens at the top are Montblanc Meisterstuck knockoffs. Extremely extremely common. The genuine ones of these models are about...
Well they're not magnetic, I can tell you that much. Either way, I think it's cool. If it's breaking some site rule against posting fake stuff,...
Well I'm not a coin collector in general, I collect silver and general antiques. Unfortunately, carrying a magnet around with me all the time just...
Inexpensive, cheap, whatever...a discount of nearly 50% is good in anybody's books, especially when it was already super cheap.
As far as silver watch-chains go, it was pretty cheap.
Silver-coin jewelry was very popular in the early 1900s. I've seen bracelets, cufflinks, belts, necklaces, belt-buckles, brooches, watch-fobs,...
This particular chain, yes. Each link has a little lion-passant. Man that must've been a lot of work!! Feel sorry for the assay-marker!
Something I picked up at a watch-&-clock fair in town today. It's a solid silver chatelaine-fob and watch chain, made out of silver coins. From...
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