Description: For your consideration is a hard-to-find World War Two era version of the Parker Brothers board game, ACROSS THE CONTINENT. What makes this edition unique is that Parker Brothers stopped using the typical painted metal Tootsietoy trains and replaced them with composition pieces of the same design. I can't tell what the composite consists of but Bruce Whitehill, "The Big Game Hunter" notes that "they can include combinations of natural substances like wood fibers, resins, and fillers, or synthetic materials like polymers and fiberglass." The game consists of the following: tri-fold game board 4 composition trains in blue, green red and yellow 4 matching cardboard dice cups in the same colors 8 dice18 tickets (9 West-bound and 9 East-bound) in two colors Rules for playing booklet (4 pages) original box with build-ups and insertThe booklet explains the game as follows: "It represents tours across the Continent, the principal railroads being the routes of travel The larger cities are shown by red dots, The general characteristics of the country are pictorially shown, such as the cotton plantations of the South, the mining of the mountain regions, cattle raising, the grain fields of the central West, etc., etc." The tickets feature the following trains: East Bound: Memphis Despatch, Canadian Express, Union Pacific Express, Northern Pacific Express, Boston Despatch, Midland Express, Washington Flyer, Northern Express, and Southern Express. West Bound: California Limited, Texas, Texas Mail, North West Mail, Santa Fe Route, Los Angeles Flier, Sunset Limited, Florida and Southern Special, New York Central Limited, and Union Pacific Overland Mail. Condition: The game is complete with tri-fold game board, 4 composition trains, 4 cardboard dice cups, 8 dice, 9 East Bound and 9 West Bound tickets, 4 page directions booklet, and original box with insert and build-ups. The board is in very good condition; clean and bright. The trains, dice cups and dice are likewise in very good condition. One of the East Bound tickets has a crease (see close-up); the others are very good. The booklet is in good condition with light age-toning. The label on the box top retains its bright colors. The box top is in fair condition with three split corners (with signs of previous tape repairs. The remaining corner is taped. One long apron has two seam splits and piece that has come off at one corner. The insert and build-ups are in very good condition. The box bottom has two corner splits. PLEASE MOUSE OVER THE PHOTOGRAPHS FOR CONDITION DETAILS.
Price: 79.97 USD
Location: Denver, Colorado
End Time: 2024-12-09T00:20:19.000Z
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Game Type: Board Game
Brand: Parker Brothers
Min. Number of Players: 2 players
Game Title: Across the Continent
Year: 1940
Theme: Rail Travel
Gender: Boys & Girls
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
