A trip around the world
- Bib ID:
- 6572207
- Format:
- Object
- Author:
- Parker Brothers, designer
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Scale:
- Scale not given (W 180°00ʹ--E 180°00ʹ/N 90°00ʹ--S 90°00ʹ).
- Description:
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- [Salem, Massachusetts] : Parker Brothers, [1896]
- ©1896
- 1 game (various pieces) : colour, mounted on wooden box ; 42 x 57 x 5 cm
- Summary:
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Simple roll-and-move race-around-the-world board game with a 103-space track, starting and ending in New York, and taking in San Francisco, including London, Paris, Berlin, St Petersburg, Rome, Constantinople, Cairo, Bombay, Calcutta, Borneo, Melbourne, the [Australian] goldfields, Sidney [that is, Sydney], Auckland, Coral Sea, Hong Kong, Canton, Pekin, Shanghai, Tokio, Yokohama, Tacoma, San Fransisco, St. Louis, Chicago, Washington, Boston and back to New York. Vious spaces have penalties or bonuese (e.g. "65. Wounded in Borneo, go to Calcutta", "68. Sidney go to Canton".
- Notes:
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- Board game mounted on wooden box, as originally issued.
- Contains 1 gameboard, 4 dice, 2 shakers, 4 player tokens, 13 round yellow markers, 10 round red markers, 2 white round markers (originally yellow or red markers?), stored in small pull out drawer at side of gameboard.
- National Library of Australia's copy lacks original lid bearing title and printed rules on inside. Contains original and modern dice.
- Also available online https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1538875722
- Subject:
- Time Coverage:
- 1896
- Copyright Information:
- Copyright 1896 by Parker Brothers
- Copyright:
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