hey folks this is the treasure hunting series i found a rare vintage or antique monopoly game in
my estate cleanup stay tuned i'm going to tell you what i know about this game and what we found do
welcome back to pine meadows hobby farm i'm your host jerry hansen i do these estate cleanups from
time to time and while i'm gathering stuff and i'm finding different artifacts and i
just recently went through these artifacts that i had stored away and i'm gradually going through
them piece by piece and i found this 1935 parker brothers board game called monopoly
and it was complete with all of its tokens and everything let's take a look at it parker brothers
purchased the rights to the monopoly game in 1935 and they introduced six original tokens
the battleship the boot the cannon the thimble the top hat and the iron later in 1935 the race
car was added to the game to make seven monopoly tokens and shortly afterwards they added the purse
which made it eight over the next 12 months two more pieces were added the lantern and the
rocking horse which each of these pieces are very rare and hard to find i wanted to add that when
monopoly first came out the makers recommended that people use their own tokens such as buttons
for playing the game but then when parker brothers added together the tokens to the game they outed
added these little metallic tokens well during the war they had to use the metal for the war
effort so they came up with a a wood pawn not um not much unlike what you find in the chess game
uh these wooden pawns substituted during the war effort the the metal tokens after the war
parker brothers decided to make their own pieces out of pewter the first new pieces to be
introduced was the wheelbarrow in 1940s along with a horse and rider along with a scottish terrier
the car also gained a driver in the 1940s although only lasted until 1950 in 1946
the cannon was replaced with a similar howitzer so the original tokens in 1935 was the canon
which was retired in 1946. the iron introduced in 1935 they retired that in 2013. the thimble also
introduced in 1935 they retired that in 2017 along with a boot the top hat introduced in 1935 still
endures to this day the battleship 1935 is still indoors today race car same the purse however
1935 was introduced and they retired that in 1950. now here's a piece i've never seen before was a
lantern until i opened this vintage box introduced in 1936 it retired in 1950 along with the rocking
horse the horse with a writer introduced in 1940 they retired that in 2007 along with a wheelbarrow
they but they retired the wheelbarrow in 2017 in recent times the scotty dog introduced in 1940
still remains in the board uh howard sir cannon introduced in 1946 uh it retired in 2007. they've
added others since then and i don't have any of those but we're just talking about the vintage
that we have now these community chest cards and the chance cards are unique and rare as in their
text only as opposed to the current ones which do have graphics on them all but for the chance
cards are the same as far as the text goes with the modern cards however there's four
that the vintage cards have that the old cards did not parking fine fifteen dollars you are
assessed for street repairs forty dollars per house or a hundred and fifteen dollars per hotel
or your christmas fund matures collect 100 and pay school tax of 150 the same applies to the
community chest text only cards as opposed to the graphic cards of today the text only cards has
four cards they don't have with the modern and the modern has four cards that they don't have with
these uh vintage ones the ones that the vintage has is pay a ten dollar fine or take a chance
we're off the gold standard collect fifty dollars go back to baltic avenue or pay your insurance
premium of fifty dollars it's nice to see that monopoly when it was invented they stuck with
the prices so as far as monopoly goals over the decades hasn't succumbed to inflation they still
remain the same prices with the exception of the actual cost of the board game itself
this is an original card from this package i do have cards of uh four different monopoly games
over the decades uh from 1935 to 1974 and possibly even newer and in this video you could see the
difference in the color tone of the actual paper stock it just gradually gets darker and darker
and that just depends on the paper stock and the tone that they had of the day now speaking of tone
let's look at the houses the house tokens and also the hotels there's a difference there too
now before the proliferation of plastics they made things out of wood in this video
you'll see that there's three different tones of houses of three different eras of board games of
the monopoly game the lighter tone the lighter stained wood houses along with the hotels and
then you got a little bit darker stain which goes into more current and then what we have
on our board games today we have the plastic houses and hotels now i noted that in the uh um
a couple of decades later they they added some text to the hotels it says grand hotel on that
wooden text now you'll notice the slightly variance of colors between the two uh monies
between the vintage and the current there's another difference between all the denominations
and the fact is vintage was cut a little bit longer or wider than the uh current ones so you
can just stack them on and and you can see there is a difference and that's true through all the
bills to denote which one's truly vintage and which one's modern an earlier board if you find
a monopoly board that says patent pending that is perhaps more value than this board this has a
um a print date of 1935 so this is an original board when it was purchased by
parker brothers in current days it's printed and manufactured by milton bradley who bought the
rights from parker brothers while we're on the subject of cards the land cards stayed the same
no change with the exception of they just changed up the text slightly so how much
value does this original 1935 monopoly board go for well i found a variety of prices anywhere from
four hundred dollars clear up to nine hundred dollars there is also a value on the cards alone
community chest text only and chance text only they go for around twenty dollars respectively
the board game was so complete with the exception of it did not have the original box they had
made this homemade box to contain this monopoly monopoly set it also came with uh the original
rules yes these are the original and it came with a little bit of the history
and instructions and it also came with this little card get this look at the price
that card was in the box and then this parker brothers advertisement was in there they were
advertising some other games that they had i've never heard of some of these
but look at the price a dollar fifty for that one a dollar for that one dig
sorry sold for a dollar fifty if you want the club edition is two dollars uh camelot
great fun a dollar 25. we now today we're seeing inflation it's ridiculous and here's some more
so i thought you guys might be interested in uh the parker brothers game 1935 edition
with all of its tokens intact i think this is rare this is a rare find because everything
everything is there except for the original box i'm jerry hanson your host from the treasure
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