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Old Mahjong* game, in its exotic wooden box with bone inlays, decorated with birds on flowering branches and various plant motifs, including Mahjong tiles (in bamboo and bone), dot sticks and dice, with a rule of the game, from China, from the beginning of the 20th century.
This box is in good condition. The game is complete.
A note: slot on the front of the box and on the back (at the bottom), some scratches, dirt and wear of time, see photos.
is a board game of Chinese origin that is played with four players, with pieces called tiles. Combining tactics, strategy, calculation and psychology, as well as a more or less important part of luck depending on the rule played, mah-jong is a very popular gambling game in East Asia and in most Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese and Thai people of the world. If the oldest games (and written mentions of the game) found date from 1875 and are kept in the United States, it is difficult to know where and by whom the mahjong was shaped. Several hypotheses have been put forward. It would have been created around 1860 during the Taiping Rebellion by officers of the rebel army, but it is very unlikely, or by a notable from Shanghai in the 1870s, or even by two brothers from Ningbo. It would seem, moreover, that mahjong was practiced at the beginning of the 20th century, in parallel, in the form of a card game (less expensive) and in its current form of tiles (more luxurious).
