Monopoly The Waddington's Boardgame

Since I was a young child I have enjoyed playing Waddington's Board Games.  The most famous and best selling of these is Monopoly.  Since the game was invented in 1935 over 15 million sets have been sold in the UK by Waddingtons and their successor Hasbro and over 90 million sets by Parker in the USA.
Since April, 1999 I have been developing a website devoted to Waddington's games and this can be found on
http://www.reynolds-s-a.freeserve.co.uk/WG.HTM#WGAM

There is quite a lot about Monopoly on the site so hopefully you will enjoy reading it.  We get quite a few queries about various games and just today two were answered by a kind contact and will be added to the site it due course.
The queries and replies are as follows

"Similarly Alex Rarity comments “The box is like a pinkish snakeskin pattern and the back of the board is the same. The players pieces are unusual as well they are a globe, a horses head, a typewriter, a basket of flowers with gems encrusted in it, a boot also encrusted with gems and a telephone with gems.” Any idea when this set was produced. This sounds like the 30^th Anniversary Edition with a spangled foil box and jewel encrusted tokens – thanks Fitch"

"Karin Mcguire comments that in the 1960s, her family had a version with conventional London streets and colours but the counters were very different from those used today. The counter were; blue (Mallard) locomotive, red car, yellow tractor, grey motorcycle, bronze sailing ship and green tank all in painted metal.  The hotels and houses were coloured red and green made from wood. Does anyone know anything about this edition or have a copy? These were trademark sets produced between 1950 and 1959 – thanks Fitch"

So perhaps you have some experiences of playing Monopoly are have some queries we could try and answer.