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For no Particular Reason it’s China Rhymings ‘Shanghai in 1924’ Week – #4 Shanghai Mah Jongg Sets America Alight for Christmas 1924

Posted: December 15th, 2016 | No Comments »

Christmas 1924 was the height of the mah jong craze in the USA. A good year for Shanghai manufacturers of set both high-end luxury and low with instructions. One fashionable young lady even took the mah jong craze to her legs with a lovely pair of nylon stockings with mah jong inspired motifs!!

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