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15: Cardboard set in embossed box: set:
Gold-embossed box
Overview
Small travelling set of unused cardboard tiles (most still needing to be separated from each other). Comes with 5 metal racks and wooden counting sticks.

16: Larger Chinese set:
tiles in case
sample of all tiles
Chinese set of tiles in cloth-covered box with larger than (is usual for Chinese) tiles. Features nice bold images and has a rather unusual style of peacock as #1 Bamboo.
Interesting set of flowers and seasons, which ar all flowers in pots.
Also has the "complex wan" symbol, indicating better quality carving (as this takes more time and effert to carve the than simplified wan character).

17: Traditional 5-drawered Chest set:
box with accessories
sample of all tiles
Typical 1920's set in chest with 144 tiles + 4 blank spares. Bone betting sticks are nice quality and uniform with rounded edges. Dice in tiny slide-top box.
Note the "simplified wan" character.
The tiles have a nice thick layer of bone.

18: Royal Traveler, embossed wooden set:
open box
tiles on racks wooden
Set of 168 embossed wooden tiles with plastic money chips. The set has 32(!) flowers - 4 each of two sets of 4 in varying colours.

19: "Pe-Ling" thick cardboard set:
box and tile samples
box and contents
Thick cardboard tiles with paper faces in slender box. "Pe-Ling" is yet another of the many names by which Mah Jongg is known. Set features wooden racks with doubling tables, paper money, original rules.
Was probably a travel set or even a children's set, but in any event: a more affordable set!

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