Description:

Offered for adoption is a beautiful vintage game with a lovely styalized diving one bamboo - it also features a neat combination of flower/herb bouquets with very nice carvings all housed in its original traditional Rosewood box. The tiles are rather tactile in this particular game - they feel nice to hold and play with.

The game is from the mid to early 1940's and has the original "simpler" style character design confirming its age.

Believe it or not the Rosewood box is intact and it has all its brass corner trim and both top carrying handles which are sturdy and strong! I notice 3 of the pull handles are missing a portion of the pull - this means you have to tilt the box forward slightly to open the drawer - considering the age of the game the box is in good condition.

There are a total of 152 tiles with a bone to bamboo ratio "20/80" - 20% bone and 80% bamboo. 152 tiles means this game has all its original tiles - 144 playing tiles plus 8 matching tiles that have been added to be used for jokers. I have added joker stickers to each these 8 tiles so it is ideal for anyone wishing to play using NMJL (National Mah Jong League) or Chinese rules.

The dragon tiles are traditional Chinese characters (red and green) and the white dragon is totally blank.

This is a lovely quality game with all elements coming together to make this a classic, classy & pleasing game to play with and own.

Let me know if I can help with any more information.