Classic Versions 1961 (Australia)
1961
Edition: London edition - "Small Box" - Green Trade Mark - Pat.app.for No.3796-36
Publisher: John Sands Pty. Ltd./John Waddington - Leeds - ±1961
Dimensions of the box: 15.2 x 18.2 x 2.9 cm
This edition is another example of the "transition period".
Features of this edition are:
| Lid: | On the green lid is a red "locomotive illustration" within a black diamond overlaying a white star. There under is the JS hourglass with initials outside the instrument. |
| Rent on Piccadilly: | Is £22 on the unimproved ground, like the other yellow streets. |
| Community Chest / Chance: | Shows the blue treasure chest of Parker Brothers on the Community Chest cards. Community Chest cards are yellow and the Community Chest cards are orange / pink. |
| Tokens: | Six coloured plastic pawns. |
| Money: | The seven banknotes in this edition are the usual £1, £5, £10, £20, £50, £100 and £500. |
| Houses / Hotels: | The houses and hotels are made of a dull wood. |
| Dice: | They are bluish purple with uncoloured pips. |
| Game Board: | It's back is red with the "locomotive illustration" on one of the sections. The fold is perpendicular to the 1st side. |
| Super Tax: | Only shows a small, rhomb-shaped square of Waddingtons. |
| Rules: | It mentions "Please enclose 2d. stamp." Rules with this statement are not of this era, so they probably came from old stock perhaps. |
Edition: London edition - "Long Box" - Trade Mark - Pat.app.for No.3796-36
Publisher: John Sands Pty. Ltd./John Waddington Ltd. - London and Leeds - ±1961
Dimensions of the box: 25.5 x 51 cm
This edition of the "transistion period" moved a bit further to the Parker design, shown a.o. by the change of color of the blue Community Chest cards into yellow. It is to be noted that the engines on the station spaces are still the uncoloured Waddington ones.
Features of this edition are:
| Lid: | On the green lid is a red "locomotive illustration" within a black diamond overlaying a white star. Underneath is the JS hourglass with initials outside the instrument. In the innerbox are two large cardboard inserts with colourful images. The left piece shows "Uncle Pennybags" sitting on a high stack of banknotes with his top hat on and enjoying a cigar. The right piece shows "Uncle Pennybags" without top hat nor cigar, like a convict, sitting on but a tiny stack of banknotes. |
| Rent on Piccadilly: | Is £22 on the unimproved ground, like the other yellow streets. |
| Community Chest / Chance: | The Community Chest space on the board shows the blue Parker Brothers' treasure chest. The Chance cards (77 x 49 mm) are pale dull pink through and the Community Chest cards are yellow. However, this edition has also seen with blue Community Chest cards. |
| Tokens: | Six coloured plastic tokens. |
| Money: | Printed black on coloured paper the seven banknotes arethe usual £1, £5, £10, £20, £50, £100, and £500. |
| Houses / Hotels: | The houses and hotels are hollowed out plastic with roof tiles and chimney. |
| Dice: | The dice (14 mm) are dark purple blue with uncoloured pips and rounded corners. However, this edition has also been seen with the small Chinese dice (10 mm) where a big red dot is for one. |
| Game Board: | Its back is red with the "locomotive illustration" within a black diamond overlaying a white star on one of the sections. |
| Super Tax: | Only shows a small, rhomb-shaped square of Waddingtons. |
| Rules: | Are printed in blue on a sheet of 12.7 cm width. The money section of these Rules show the distribution to be 2 x £500 per player instead of 1 x £500. At the end it says the makers are willing to reply to your questions, but "Please enclose a stamped addressed envelope". |
| Locomotives on the Station Spaces: | The "back driving" engine is according to the Waddington design, however uncoloured. |
Edition: London edition - "Small Box" with separate board - Registered Trade Mark
Publisher: Parker Bros. Inc./Edwards Dunlop and Co. Ltd. - ±1961
Dimensions of the box: 15 x 18 x 3 cm
For some reason Parker Brothers ordered in this "transistion period" this new company Edwards Dunlop to make a different design of the London Monopoly compared to the one of John Sands who still was a licencee of Waddington! It could also be perhaps, as a result of some financial disagreement, John Sands had indicated they no longer wished to produce monopoly sets after their licence ended.
Basically the games are the same and strange enough both companies soon ceased from making any more Monopoly editions for Parker Brothers (Edward Dunlop some time around 1966).
The differences to the John Sands editions are:
| The large black characters used for the word Monopoly never used before. |
| The boards' back is red with the illustration of the lid printed on in a criss-cross pattern. |
| The Waddingtons "engines illustration" on top of the word Monopoly (on the lid, centre of board and top of the Rules) has been replaced by the Parker "houses illustration, with 2 men, one chasing the other" as already applied by Charles B. Darrow on his white boxes from 1935. |
| The small picture of the board in a narrow red Monopoly bar shown on the lid. This obviously is the precursor of the larger version soon applied on the long white boxes. |
| Underneath the red bar on the lid is the Edward Dunlop logo in solid characters. |
| There are two blank spare cards for the property deeds. |
| The Community Chest cards are blue. |
| The green colour of the houses is much lighter./td> |
When Phil Orbanes was with Hasbro, Australia in March 2010 he learned Edwards Dunlop was actually the parent company of John Sands Ltd.! Dunlop sold off John Sands (which was a major printer in Australia). Apparently, that was the spark that landed the game at Toltoys.
Edition: London edition - "Long Box" - Registered Trade Mark
Publisher: Parker Bros. Inc./Edwards Dunlop and Co. Ltd. - ±1961
Dimensions of the box: 25 x 50 cm
It is exactly the same edition, as far as the accessories are concerned, as the one described before, except for the fact that the long board fits inside the box.
The game board of this long box has a red back as well but its surface has a grainy structure.
Note from Harold Lee, August, 2011:
The Edward Dunlop editions as far as I know limit to four, a small and long box both pre decimal (decimalisation was introduced in the UK in 1966), and the other two editions are post decimal, again in small and long box. None of them are all that scarce but the pre-decimal long box seems less common as i have only seen about three or four so far. The pre-decimal small box is also not that common, only seen about five offered so far, no doubt many more will surface over time.
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