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<p>[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 22720, member: 25"]The Great Mah-Jonng boom was in the 1920s when the US popularity of the game among non Chinese people took off. In general that is when these older and well made sets were imported and used. </p><p><br /></p><p>I see yours still has the circular 'Wind of the Round' indicators. Notice the way the tops of the tiles are dovetailed to the bamboo bases. Good quality.</p><p><br /></p><p>On the money, the black dots are units and the red dots, hundreds, as far as I can remember.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 22720, member: 25"]The Great Mah-Jonng boom was in the 1920s when the US popularity of the game among non Chinese people took off. In general that is when these older and well made sets were imported and used. I see yours still has the circular 'Wind of the Round' indicators. Notice the way the tops of the tiles are dovetailed to the bamboo bases. Good quality. On the money, the black dots are units and the red dots, hundreds, as far as I can remember.[/QUOTE]
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