Vintage And New Monopoly Sets

Advance to go and collect £90k: Earliest surviving Monopoly set fetches whopping auction figure

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 4:41 PM on 24th February 2011

The earliest ever version of the board game Monopoly has sold for a whopping £90,000.

The set was one of 5,000 made in 1933 by Charles Darrow, the purported inventor of Monopoly, and is the only one to have survived to this day.

The dog-eared set is made out of a piece of oilcloth and is in the form of the original circular shape that is 33 inches in diameter.

Vintage: This is the earliest ever version of Monopoly, which has recently sold for a whopping £90,000. The set was one of 5,000 made in 1933 by Charles Darrow, the purported inventor of Monopoly who used the streets of Atlantic City for the game

Heating engineer Darrow drew and coloured in the playing surface using pen and ink and made the little hotels and houses from strips of pine wood moulding

Monopoly is now the most played commercial board game in the world, enjoyed by more than a billion people since its invention

A Coronation Street version of the popular family board game. More than 275 million Monopoly boards have been sold worldwide and it is available in 111 countries and in 43 languages

This gold and jewel-encrusted Monopoly game set, on display at the Museum of American Finance, is estimated to be worth roughly $2 million.