9/10/14

Welcome to returning visitors and, since the last post, extra visitors from Colombia, Lebanon, South Africa and South Korea.

Updates:

Firstly, 15 new examples of ‘Chinese Bakelite’ sets have been added to the Category 2.0, Synthetic section of the ‘Tile Set Galleries’. More examples to follow. These newest additions serve to illustrate that although the general iconography is the same – the three Suits and the Directions and Dragons – subtle, particular differences still remain between each set – for example, the patterns on the one Cash/Circle and the one SOC/Bamboo levitra 20mg. Captions will be added once the process of picture uploads is complete.

Secondly, new material has been added to the ‘Pre 1920 Names‘ article. This article should be read in conjunction with those articles in ‘Tile Set History’ section. The new material introduces a very important 18th century Chinese text that describes two Draw and Discard card games. These games were one of the earliest to feature card combinations of the kind used in ma qiao/proto Mahjong. The name of one of the card games was subsequently used as a name for the 19th century game of ma qiao/proto Mahjong.

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