For your consideration is a hard-to-find World War Two era version of the Parker Brothers board game, ACROSS THE CONTINENT.
The game consists of the following:
•Tri-fold game board map of USA(Lower 48 States)
•4 Tootsie Toy metal trains in blue, green red and yellow
•4 matching dice cups in the same colors
•8 real wood dice
•18 tickets (9 West-bound and 9 East-bound) in two colors
•Rules for playing booklet (4 pages)
•Original box with build-ups and insert
•The 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.
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•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.
The booklet is in good condition with light age-toning.
The label on the box top retains its bright colors.
The whole box top is in excellent condition, considering it's age The insert and build-ups are all in good condition
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