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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Shangas, post: 10005033, member: 360&quot;]<b>The two oldest mahjong sets known to exist in the world today. </b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>[ATTACH=full]502535[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]502536[/ATTACH] </b></p><p><br /></p><p>They were brought back to the USA by an American diplomat - George Bunker Glover, in the 1870s. Glover was stationed in Shanghai for most of his time in China, and Shanghai was a major manufacturing center for Mahjong sets, so it makes sense that he bought the sets there. </p><p><br /></p><p>He returned to America in 1872 on leave, and donated the sets to museums in 1875, before heading back to China. Both sets are incomplete, but you can see that the basics of the game have changed very little in the past 150-odd years.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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