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version 2000

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versie 2000

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  Number of versions: 2

  Edition: July 14, 2010

Map of Lebanon.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. 

 

 

Libano poly, ±1980.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.

Cerial edition from General Mills/Parker Bros, 2003.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.

Child behind the bars.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 

 

2000 Lebanon edition.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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