<p><em>Finance</em> was published by <em>Dave Knapp</em> and was one of the candidates to buy the patents of <em>Elizabeth Magie</em> who invented <em>The Landlord's Game</em>.</p>

<p>The other candidate was the company <em>Parker Brothers</em> which acquired the patents and turned <em>The Landlord's Game</em> into <em>Monopoly</em>.</p>

<p>If in good or even better mint condition, you'll get more than $50. As mentioned by <em>Nancy H</em> and I myself didn't find any version of the 1932' <em>Finance</em> (in comparision to the more common <em>Parker Brother</em> 36' and 58' publications) so you might want to get it curated.</p>

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2015-12-18T18:41:30.310Z
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<p>We inherited board games from my husbands grandmother who died in the 1980s.  Among them is a practically brand new (doesnt look used) board game called Finance.  The instruction booklet says copyright 1932. Some googling reveals that this was a precursor to Monopoly and was bought out by Parker Brothers a few yearslater. Do people collect old board games? Would this have some value?</p>

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2015-03-22T23:53:37.970Z
Not sure the exact version you have or condition, but from the one google query I did, you can find others on the internet selling for $5-50.
Colin D
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# 1932 Finance board game

(Asked by: username_0 on 2015-03-21)

We inherited board games from my husbands grandmother who died in the 1980s. Among them is a practically brand new (doesnt look used) board game called Finance. The instruction booklet says copyright 1932. Some googling reveals that this was a precursor to Monopoly and was bought out by Parker Brothers a few yearslater. Do people collect old board games? Would this have some value?

**Tags:** identify-this-game, monopoly

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Not sure the exact version you have or condition, but from the one google query I did, you can find others on the internet selling for $5-50.  

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_2 on 2015-12-18. Score: 3

*Finance* was published by *Dave Knapp* and was one of the candidates to buy the patents of *Elizabeth Magie* who invented *The Landlord's Game*.

The other candidate was the company *Parker Brothers* which acquired the patents and turned *The Landlord's Game* into *Monopoly*.

If in good or even better mint condition, you'll get more than $50. As mentioned by *Nancy H* and I myself didn't find any version of the 1932' *Finance* (in comparision to the more common *Parker Brother* 36' and 58' publications) so you might want to get it curated.


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