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A keychain carved from Burmese jade in the form of a mahjong tile, in stone rather than the moulded resin these usually are.
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Almost every mahjong themed trinket is moulded resin, which is fine and feels like exactly what it is. Carved stone is a different object: it has weight for its size, it stays cool, and the grain runs differently through every piece.
That last point is worth understanding before ordering. No two are identical, and variation in tone and marking is the material behaving normally rather than a fault.
Jade covers two distinct minerals, jadeite and nephrite, with a wide range of grades and treatments inside each. Burmese jade usually means jadeite from Myanmar, which is the more valued of the two.
The supplier states no certification for this piece, so it should be understood as a jade keychain rather than as a certified stone of a stated grade. At this price that is the honest reading.
Jade is hard but not unbreakable, and a keychain lives a hard life: dropped on pavements, in and out of pockets, against keys. Expect it to acquire marks, which on stone read as wear rather than damage.
Wipe with a soft damp cloth. Avoid solvents and ultrasonic cleaners, which damage treated stone. Keep it off a keyring shared with sharp keys if you want it to stay unmarked.
| Material | Burmese jade |
|---|---|
| Type | Keychain |
| Weight | 0.05 kg (0.1 lb) |
Orders are processed within 1 to 2 business days, with tracking on every parcel. Delivery across the United States takes 10 to 25 days and costs $9.95, one flat rate charged once per order whatever the number of items.
Changed your mind? You have 30 days from delivery to request a return, unused and in its original packaging. Approved refunds go back to your original payment method within 3 business days.
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.
It strings miniature tiles on an elastic or sets them into a chain, worn on the wrist. The idea is the same as this keychain, worn rather than carried. What differs is exposure. A bracelet meets every desk edge and doorframe its wearer does, all day, which moulded resin survives poorly. One carved jade tile on a set of keys keeps the reference and asks far less of the material.
Each suit carries a reading. Bamboo stands for growth, circles for coins and prosperity, characters for the number written on the face. Above them sit the winds and the dragons, which order the seats and the rounds. Jade adds a second layer of its own, since the stone carried associations of protection and steadiness in Chinese use long before anyone carved it into a tile.
Cost follows material and finish. Moulded resin leaves a tool in seconds. Carved stone is sawn, shaped and polished one piece at a time, and a share of every block is lost or rejected along the way. Burmese jade is also sorted by colour and translucency before carving even begins. A keychain shows in miniature the same arithmetic a full stone set shows across 144 tiles.
For a playing set the usual order is by suit, then by number, with winds and dragons kept together so a missing tile shows itself at a glance. Most players keep that order in a fitted case or a bag with compartments, since tiles that shift loose chip at the corner. This keychain is not part of a set and needs no sorting, but it does mark which bag or which keys the set travels with.
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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