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Since 1950, the world-famous playing card manufacturer Piatnik started making board games, including the first editions of Parker Brother's Monopoly. However, they did this for about 30 years, until about 1990 when Parker / Tonka started manufacturing the games in France. In the center of the game board the last copyright year is mentioned 1961, with the remark "Alleinhersteller Wiener Spielefabrik Ferd.Piatnik & Söhne, Wien" (manufacturer only). On the other hand, the Rules show the year 1981 as the last copyright year. This may therefore mean that this implementation has remained unchanged over the past 20 years. The period 1960/80 was apparently a time of search and orientation for Parker Brothers, because all over Europe there were other licensees or contracts were not renewed. This was the case with Piatnik, among others. Although it is somewhat hidden by 9 pictures of famous points of the cities mentioned on the game board, the design of the lid of this Austrian edition is similar to that of other European cities, ie with "a board in a green in a blue square with the red Monopoly bar next to it and the Uncle Pennybags logo in a red block between 2 blue Parker locomotives ". In the red block is the number 77314. The blue field shows the name of the manufacturer, while above the red bar it says "Lizenz Parker Brothers Inc. U.S.A.". There is no "Parker muscle" but there is the Piatnik logo. The red Monopoly bar is on all 4 sides of the lid. Nothing is printed on the bottom of the box. The board is of not too strong cardboard and is folded in such a way that the play side is turned outwards. The back is white. Only on the streets and stations the names are shown twice, so that they can be read from all sides. All fields are numbered from Loose. The cities to which the streets belong are mentioned above the group. In the center of the board is Monopoly in black closed letters, parallel to the 1st side. The insert in the innerbox is made of soft, white plastic and has 5 holes for the cards and other attributes. The back of the white Ereigniskarten (Event cards) has a red?, While the Gemeinschaftskarten (Community cards) of course has the blue treasure chest. The banknotes are of white paper printed on one side in color, which, in addition to the word Monopoly and the number in the circle, also bear "pat.app.for Nº 3796-36". The 7 denominations are in Schilling: 100 - 500 - 1,000 - 2,000 - 5,000 - 10,000 and 50,000. There are 6 plastic Man-Annoy-You-Not tokens as tokens. The wooden houses are green, the hotels red. Both dice are green with gold pips. This edition was made in Austria. (Ref: Wall newspaper Monopoly)
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