Description
Click, clack: the tiles shuffled across the green felt every Tuesday at two, and the four women of the card club argued happily over the rules, the snacks, and whose turn it was to bring the lemon bars. Nobody remembered how the club had started, only that it had outlasted three husbands, two kitchens and one very temperamental poodle.
When Ruth moved south to be near her grandchildren, the other three chose this porcelain Mah Jongg tile as her farewell, with its tiny removable die tucked alongside for good fortune. She keeps it on the card table in her new sunroom and has already started a fresh game with the neighbors, though she insists that no one will ever build a wall quite the way Bea did. Every Tuesday at two, wherever they are, the four still trade photographs of their winning hands, and Ruth’s tile always appears in the corner of hers.
Worth noticing
- Shaped like a traditional Mah Jongg tile
- Includes a little die that lifts out
- Sized at 2.5 x 1.75 x 0.75 inches
- Designed and made by Rochard
- Painted by hand in Limoges, France, on porcelain
Give it to the player who keeps the scorecards, a hostess who sets out the best snacks, or a new friend just learning to call pung. Tuck the little die in a pocket before the next game for an extra dose of luck.
