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Edition: July 14, 2010
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UNDER
CONSTRUCTION
Lebanon's location at the east end of the Mediterranian Sea caused this
country to be a regional center for finance and trade over centuries.After WW I,
on September 1920, it was France who formed the State of Greater Lebanon and 6
years later it formed the Lebanese Republic, although it remained a separate
entity from Syria. Lebanon gained independence in 1943.
Because there have not been a clear British influence in this country there is
no reason to expect Waddington's Monopoly editions here over the Parker
Brother's version.
Edition:
Libano poly - De Luxe edition, without ref.nr.
Publisher:Unknown inland manufacturer - ±1980
Dimensions of the box:26 x 50 cm
of the game board:
The Game:
This edition is owned by Steve Amato - N.Y.
As
Steve saw something written on the little board shown on the cover he took his
magnifier and found on one side of the inner section: Made In Lebanon and on the other: Under Licence From Parker Brothers Division General Mill
Group Inc. U.S.A..
The conclusion must be drawn that the unknown manufacturer of this illegal
edition must have copied the image of the "game
board in a green
and blue
field with a horizontal red
bar" from an earlier issued official Parker edition made in Lebanon. This
design was used in the period between 1960 and 1980, in which Parker was owned
by the American Cereals manufacturer General Mills!
Besides Parker Brothers exclusively and only use the word Monopoly
for all their games, with no exception, so the will never have allowed to
manufacture this edition.
The
board is of heavy cardboard with a dark blue
marble back.
Differences of the design, with regard to the Parker Brothers' game board:
 | The red arrow on the Go corner is
under 90°. |
 | Little boy behind the bars on the Jail corner, rather than Jack the
"Jail bird". |
 | Different lamp on Electric Company. |
 | All property deeds have to be torn loose from sheets, like the Chance
and Community Chest cards |
 | All prices are a factor 10 higher than in the standard Parker
editions of that era. |
 | The last but one space to Go has the Waddington notation and amount as
well: Super Tax Pay 750 L. |
The properties (of which are at least a number from Beirut) are from Go
onwards:
Corniche Nahr - Community
Chest - Lebanon
- Income
Tax (Pay 2000L) - Port Station - Achrafieh
St. - Chance - Basta
St. - Chouran Ave - Jail
- Customs
House St. - Electric Company - Maarad
St. -Damascus St. -
Furn El Chebbak
Station - Martyrs Square - Community
Chest - Abou Bakr El Saddik St. -
Municipal
Stadium St . - Free Parking - Independence
Ave - Chance - Jewellers
Souk - Souk El Tawile -
Quarantina
Station -
El Arz
St. - Bechara El Khoury Ave
- Water Works - Bab
Idriss - Go To Jail - Kantari St.
- Trablos St.
- Community Chest - Phoenicia St.
- Nahr Station - Chance - Riad Solh
- Super
Tax (1000L) and Al Hamra St..
The property deeds in Arab only except for the stations and
utility works! Their names are in English too. These cards are printed on
sheets of cardboard that are perforated.
The Chance and Community Chest
Cards are printed on light yellow/beige colored cardboard. The writing on the
Chance cards is blue and the Community Chest
cards is red. There is no writing
on the back to indicate which is which. They are each printed on a single
sheet of cardboard that is perforated.
The banknotes looks like the Parker Bros. notes but had to be different
yet. So nothing else but the note's value is given in the ellipse, 2 of the
small rectangular spaces are empty, while 1 of the other spaces shows the value
in Arabic and the other in Roman. They are all printed on white paper with colored
ink. The 6
denominations are: 10 - 50
- 100 - 500 - 1,000 and
5,000. The currency
is Lebanese Pounds.
The tokens consist of 6 colored, plastic pawns with broad
base.
The houses and hotels are poor quality of thick plastic without
chimneys. .
The rules are on a thin sheet of paper that is
to be folded 2x. They are printed in Arabic only.
The dice are one red and one blue
with white dots
Edition:
2000 Monopoly, without ref.nr.
Publisher: Unknown inland manufacturer (is a
name mentioned somewhere Adi?) - 2000
Dimensions of the box: ?? x ?? cm
The game:
This is a set from the collection of Adi Wilk - Austin Tx -
USA.
Although the lid gives the impression this game to be an official Waddingtons
licensed edition I would rather it a "Made in Lebanon" illegal
copy.
Adi a few more
pictures please, with at least one of the board in such a quality that I can
read the names of ALL properties and if possible als one showing the total of
the box, innerbox and the board with many accessories
As so often in Arab countries this set is also a bad copy of the bilingual
Waddingtons issue with ref.nr. 46021 with the streets of London. (Compare
this edition with that with ref.nr. 7405 (2) from India.)
On each space
the text is written both in English and Arabic. For the rest is striking that:
 | The game board is of soft carton. Its back is silver
grey. The word MONOPOLY (in open characters) on the midfield of
the board is parallel to the first side. There is no mention of any
copyright year and no Uncle Pennybags is coming out the O. |
 | The inner box contains but a few carton stripes to shape trays for
the equipment. |
 | The banknotes are of translucent paper! The front is
the Parker Brothers design with engine and house. The backside is like the
Waddingtons design, i.e. with "engines-pattern-with Uncle Pennybags and £-sign". |
 | The green houses and red
brown hotels are made of plastic and have no roof edges. |
 | The 6 tokens are the well-known car, hat, boat, shoe, iron and dog,
but badly cast of grey
plastic. |
 | There are 2 redbrown dice with black
pips. |
 | The yellow Chance and pink
Community Chest cards have rounded corners and are numbered. |
 | Both instructions have been printed on thin paper, without mention
of "Registered Trade Mark", as it is on the OMAN sets. |
The price of this set
amounted to ???? in ???which year/month??
Adi is ^^^^^ all
this true??? and/or do you have
additional comments???
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