Very swank! Will you be rebuilding the interior?
Beautiful stick! I'd say it was gilt brass at some point. I like the inscription on the handle - "Christmas 1894". Awwww!!
Yes, I paid $400 for that one. For a number of reasons. 1. It was in very good-to-excellent overall condition. 2. It had minor wear, which was...
It's very interesting, but a quern it ain't. Wrong shape for it. Also, looks kinda small to be a quern...?
The problem with mahjong sets is that they're EXTREMELY common. Literally thousands, millions, were produced every week, every YEAR in China, in...
Yes, this is the newest. Late 20th century manufacture. Chinese set by the looks of it. And yes, be extremely careful with the case - they're...
Chinese sets are always 144 tiles. 152 means it was made specifically for NMJL American mahjong. The presence of the racks would make that obvious...
I bought my set for about $400. Yours will date to the early 1900s. The numbers on the tiles means that it was made for export. Sets weren't...
The biggest problem is knowing which version they play. In America, NMJL (National Mahjong League) rules generally apply. But there are groups...
The game is meant for four players, but I have done two-player and three-player, without altering any aspects of the game. In fact most of the...
The chips are used in scoring the game (don't ask me how, I've never met anybody who could explain scoring to me, in 20 years of playing!!). The...
The two oldest mahjong sets known to exist in the world today. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] They were brought back to the USA by an American diplomat -...
That said, because there ARE so many variants of the game, not every mahjong set can be used to play every variant. It can make things really...
The game? No, not difficult to learn. I've been doing it since I was 14, 15 years old. So...over 20 years by now. My friends and I used to play in...
I suppose, but it gets really annoying when people perpetuate these myths and then you gotta bust their bubbles over it.
A_J is correct. Peranakan "nyonyaware" as it's called, was made in CHINA, for export. The Peranakan-Chinese of Southeast Asia (Indonesia,...
Been collecting antique and vintage Peranakan-Chinese porcelain, or "nyonyaware" for years now, and recently added another piece to the...
The history of mahjong and mahjong sets is really interesting, and there's all kinds of myths about it, a lot of which (in fact, all of them) are...
The second one you bought definitely looks more complete. Looks about the same age, 40s, 50s. Plastic sets became all the rage in the mid-1900s....
The problem with old mahjong sets is that even a small one (unless it's REALLY small) weighs a lot. The other problem is that just because it's...
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