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MONOPOLY 

TOKEN MOVER/MARKER

DIE CAST

PEWTER TOKEN

 KEYS TO THE CITY

THIS TOKEN IS FROM THE MONOPOLY CITY  EDITION 

USED, NEAR PERFECT CONDITION

Superior collector item!!

HISTORICAL NOTES:

  The straight dope:  What's the significance of the Monopoly pieces?

Parker Brothers decided to include mover-tokens in the game.  The edition produced from 1935-36 included 4 small wax wood pieces, or pawns.  In 1937, Parker Brothers, determined to "preserve the game's" tradition, decided to produce die-cast metal tokens that were reminiscent of objects found in households across America.  This decision marked the introduction of the flat iron, purse, lantern, car, thimble, shoe, top hat, and the rocking horse.  The top Hat was modeled after the chapeau of the game's Chairman of the Board, Mr. Monopoly, and his car, his 1930s roadster. 

Two additional tokens, the battleship and the cannon, were also added in 1937.  They were used at the time in another Parker Brothers game called Conflict.  which made it easy to add this pair to the Monopoly Game.  These 10 tokens--flatiron, purse, lantern, car, thimble, shoe, top hat, rocking horse, battleship, and cannon--were used until 1942.   

With WWII came a metal shortage in the United States.  As a result, during the years 1943-47, Monopoly games contained tokens made out of wood.  Shortly after the end of WWII, the metal tokens were brought back to the game.

The early 1950s brought the addition of 3 new tokens and the departure of 3 original tokens.  The lantern, purse, and rocking horse were replaced by the dog (Mr. Monopoly's dog, Scotty), the wheelbarrow, and the horse and rider.  These 3 Monopoly game tokens still exist in the Classic Edition--the Monopoly game in the red and white box found today in stores and in more than 200 million homes worldwide.

Many new Monopoly Tokens have been created under the MONOPOLY GAME NAME over the last several decades!  Some are really hard to find and are VERT COLLECTIBLE!!  HAPPY HUNTING!!

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