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A carved jade tile as a bag charm rather than a keyring, in 2 designs, where stone survives a handle better than resin.
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The same piece of stone lives very differently depending on where it hangs. On a keyring it is dropped on pavements, shoved into pockets and ground against keys. On a bag handle it swings freely and touches almost nothing.
For a carved stone piece, that is the difference between something that stays unmarked for years and something that acquires chips in a season. If the intention is to keep it looking as it arrived, a bag is the right place for it.
Bags in a cloakroom, under a table or in a car boot all look alike, particularly the black ones. A charm makes yours findable without a search.
It is also a recognisable signal at a game, which is where most of these are worn.
Jade covers two minerals with wide variation in grade and treatment. The supplier states no certification, so this should be read as a jade charm rather than a certified stone of a stated grade. Carved stone varies from piece to piece, and that variation is the material rather than a defect.
Soft damp cloth. No solvents and no ultrasonic cleaning. Check the ring and clasp occasionally, since that is what fails long before the stone does.
| Material | Burmese jade |
|---|---|
| Type | Bag charm |
| Designs | Two |
| Weight | 0.05 kg (0.1 lb) |
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Wear your mahj
Bracelets, charms and keychains that other players spot from across a room. The quiet way of saying you play.
Win something to keep
Trinkets and small pieces for the winner of the hand. Every group needs a prize worth playing for.
Small pieces, big difference
Dice, wind indicators, counters. The details that make a table feel finished instead of improvised.
A wrist piece built from miniature tiles, threaded on elastic or mounted into a chain link. Bracelets and bag charms answer the same wish in different places. A bracelet sits against the wrist and meets whatever the wearer meets; a charm hangs from a handle and swings clear. That difference is why a charm can be carved stone where a bracelet is nearly always moulded, and why 2 designs work here as a pair.
The 4 winds mark the seats and name the rounds, east through north. The dragons come in red, green and white, and carry older readings around virtue and beginning. The 3 suits point at coins, at bamboo and at the written character. Hung from a bag, a tile does none of that work. It signals across a room that you play, which is most of what a charm is for.
Flat, dry, and held still. Tiles that rattle loose in a bag chip at the corner, and the chip lands on a face often enough to matter. A fitted case, or a bag with a compartment sized to the set, solves it. This charm is not storage. It does the smaller job of marking which bag the set lives in, which counts for something in a cloakroom full of similar bags.
Three things drive it: material, labour and the reject rate. Stone is bought before it can be fully judged, and a block that proves flawed is wasted. Carving and polishing are slow, and no machine rescues an uneven grain. Resin skips all of that, which is why resin is cheap, and why a carved jade piece costs what it does even at this size.
A mahjong set is handled more than almost anything else in the house: every tile passes through four pairs of hands, several times a game.
That is what we select for. Tiles that read clearly from the far side of the table, edges that stay clean, and a case that still closes after a few seasons of being carried around.
Sets differ in ways that only show at the table: the weight of a tile in the hand, how a crak reads from three seats away, whether the case survives the trip to a friend’s house.
When we have the figures, we publish them: tile count, tile size, weight and material. When we do not have one, we leave it out rather than guess.
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