As actual early Monopoly items become older and older, more scarce and valuable, they take on the status of "holy relics" that you probably should treat with kid gloves.  Naturally, some of the experience of using them to actually play Monopoly is thereby lost.

Also lost, over the years, is what I call the "shock of the new."  Long gone is the experience of opening up one of these classic game sets and using it for the first time.

That's part of what I hope to bring back with these reproduction sets.  I want anyone who gets one of these to have the same sort of elation that buyers had in 1935, when this was all a brand new thing.

I also thought it would be nice to add something new to the set, while at the same time staying true to the original design.  Therefore, I added a $2 bill to the set, in the same Darrow Type 2 style as the others.  Blue was an obvious color choice, since it wasn't used for the other denominations.

Since the original DBB sets only came with $9000 in play money, barely enough for a game with six players, this reproduction set comes with a bit more, to make actually playing Monopoly with it a bit more practical.

This kind of set really only became possible once I tracked down the perfect black boxes, high quality and the exact same size as the ones Darrow used.  If anything, they are higher quality than the originals.

This set comes with:

1 DBB style utensils box

1 DBB rules sheet

2 small dice

6 colored buttons, 1 metal thimble, 1 ring and 1 pencil sharpener for tokens (The DBBs did not come with any tokens, but buttons are the ones most commonly found with these sets today.  You can naturally substitute other tokens of your choosing.)

28 DBB style property cards, with colored borders and blank backs (please specify whether you prefer square corners or rounded corners- the original DBB sets had both)

16 Chance cards and 16- Community Chest cards (all with same wording as the DBB originals)

12 red hotels and 32 green houses (wood, dyed as the original ones were)

1 Certificate of Authenticity

Scrip money as follows:

60x $1

30x $2

50x $5

60x $10

30x $20

30x $50

30x $100

10x $500

A total of $11,070.  This means even if there are 6 players, there is still $2,070 remaining in the bank.

When used along with one of my reproduction DBB game boards (available through one of our other eBay listings), you can experience the "shock of the new" again, just as Monopoly players did in 1935.  We are not going to be making very many of these sets, since they are made by hand, and a lot of work is involved.