From: Sam Sloan <sloan <at> ISHIPRESS <dot> COM>
Date: 22 jun 1999
Subject: Re: Hello

If you want high quality equipment, we are definitely the place to go
because nobody outside of Japan has it.

For example, if you want to spend $50,000 (fifty thousand dollars) on a go
board, come to us!

Sam Sloan

At 01:37 AM 6/22/99 -0500, William Johnson wrote:
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>EXCELLENT!  I was stationed in Yokosuka while in the US Navy and I have
>played on tournament style boards...  Nothing else will do after that!!
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>On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Sam Sloan wrote:
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>> I am fairly certain that you can order shogi equipment from us, even though
>> it is no longer in our catalog.
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>> http://www.labnet.or.jp/~kiseido/m.htm
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>> Send the request by e-mail from that site.
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>> We manufactured all of George Hodges big big shogi (Tori Tori Shogi, etc.)
>> sets years ago. Some of the pieces like the "Drunken Elephant" had to be
>> specially designed for Hodges, because such sets did not exist in Japan.
>>
>> Sam Sloan
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>> At 12:18 AM 6/22/99 -0500, William Johnson wrote:
>> >I recently subscribed to this list and I am looking for authentic japanese
>> >playing equipment.  Thank you in advance for any assistance.
>> >
>> >regards,
>> >William
>> >
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