Some people do have ivory tiles but most people don t.
Ivory mahjong tiles.
This is a quality set of mah jong tiles.
Ending oct 8 at 12 39pm pdt 5d 5h.
The ivory color is true not yellow or greenish as was a tile set i purchased from another web site.
Only a few sets would have ever been made of ivory and many of these would have been made for the export market as could be seen with western indices on the tiles instead of just chinese characters and numbers.
Deeply carved well painted and a good weight.
This set is pure ivory.
Ivory was in very short supply in china in the 1920s and china was a poor country then.
People who have tiles that are a combination of a white material and bamboo often think their sets are made of ivory and bamboo but usually their sets are bone and bamboo.
Antique butterscotch bakelite mah jong set 152 tiles 5 racks.
Those looked as if they would glow in the dark not attractive at all.
Many people think they have ivory mahjong sets either because they assume they do or that is what they have been told.
Antique chinese mah jongg set bone bamboo wood chest case dice 1920 s.
Antique mahjong bovine bone bamboo set in case plus 4 old footed wood racks.
Bone bone is by far the most common material used in antique chinese mah jongg sets and it is usually dove tailed with bamboo.