Oh, my 1938 Monopoly set:
The one my parents had when I was a child had those types of tokens, but I doubt theirs was as old as that. I guess sometime I should do some Googling and try to find out when they switched to the metal tokens.
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The one my parents had when I was a child had those types of tokens, but I doubt theirs was as old as that. I guess sometime I should do some Googling and try to find out when they switched to the metal tokens.
According to this site, the original tokens were metal, but they switched to wood briefly during the war, when metal was scarce.
This is interesting - apparently the idea for Monopoly was stolen from an earlier game called The Landlord Game.
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Hmm, I'm not sure why they would have had a set from before they were born, but perhaps it was passed down from older relatives or something? (Although the article does mention that some Canadian sets used wooden tokens even before WWII, so maybe we didn't switch over to the pewter ones immediately after the war, as the US appears to have done?)
I'll have to ask them if they still have it...
Why shouldn't people have stuff around from before they were born? If you recall the avatar contest I ran last year about game boards, we ended up having a pretty interesting discussion about various games - Crokinole in particular. I have an antique Crokinole board that my grandparents had decades before I was born. My grandmother and I used to play often.
I don't have the checkers anymore, though.
I don't have the checkers anymore, though.
^ Fair point. I don't remember them mentioning it as originally belonging to a relative... but this *was* a long time ago! 
Really curious if they still have it. Hopefully it's not rotting away in their basement or something.
Really curious if they still have it. Hopefully it's not rotting away in their basement or something.
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