A full game sold for over $25,000 in the past - this board is in very nice - bright and colorful condition - FANTASTIC Images of the Robber Barons - One
of the most popular (and highly collectible today) games was The Game of Bulls
and Bears – The Great Wall Street
Game. The Game of Bulls and Bears was introduced by McLoughlin Bros in 1883 and
was based on the financial panic that occurred 10 years earlier. The Game of
Bulls and Bears promised players that playing the game would make them feel
like “speculators, bankers, and brokers”. Players, taking the role of
speculators, bankers, and brokers, made bets on whether the prices of stocks
and commodities would rise or fall. A spin of the spinner determined the result
of the player’s bet. The game board itself was exquisitely designed. The board
depicted fashionably dressed bulls and bears shearing penniless sheep
(representing the general public). On the corners of the board were caricatures
of ultra-rich railroad magnates William Henry Vanderbilt and Jay Gould along
with notable successful investor Cyrus W Field. - please see my other listings as i will be selling many hundreds of wonderful letterheads from an Old Time Collection over the next year - thanks