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MONOPOLY customisation Geoffrey Parker Games Ltd are sole licensed producers of luxury editions of Monopoly in the World. All items are designed at our English workshops and produced by hand to order. There are two different editions available, which allow customisation and personalisation, as follows: BESPOKE – Each Monopoly is hand inlaid by our craftsmen with over 70 leather inlays, which are pared down to match the leather playing board and embossed in either gold or silver. The board sits atop a beautiful scalloped sided leather plinth, which allows access to the internal stowage within, by the playing board pivoting open. Inside the plinth is a black felt lined and sectioned stowage compartment for the leather-bound “Bank” and card boxes, “Houses”, Hotels” and playing tokens. The “Bank” box has leather bound money separators as does the “Title Deeds”, “Community Chest” & “Chance” cards. A pair of uncrushable leather-bound dice cups, complete with trips to prevent unfair play, are provided, together with 2 ball cornered precision dice. Customisation available: The Plinth: This can be made in all of our Dauphin calf colours (an actual leather swatch can be mailed to you or we can send by e-mail digital scans of these leathers). Logos or initials can be embossed in gold or silver or even inlaid in a contrasting leather for an extra charge (see example below in gold). Continued on page 2/.
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MONOPOLY customisation

Geoffrey Parker Games Ltd are sole licensed producers of luxury editions of Monopoly in the World. All items are designed at our English workshops and produced by hand to order.

There are two different editions available, which allow customisation and personalisation, as follows:

BESPOKE – Each Monopoly is hand inlaid by our craftsmen with over 70 leather inlays, which are pared down to match the leather playing board and embossed in either gold or silver.

The board sits atop a beautiful scalloped sided leather plinth, which allows access to the internal stowage within, by the playing board pivoting open.

Inside the plinth is a black felt lined and sectioned stowage compartment for the leather-bound “Bank” and card boxes, “Houses”, Hotels” and playing tokens. The “Bank” box has leather bound money separators as does the “Title Deeds”, “Community Chest” & “Chance” cards.

A pair of uncrushable leather-bound dice cups, complete with trips to prevent unfair play, are provided, together with 2 ball cornered precision dice.

Customisation available:

The Plinth:

This can be made in all of our Dauphin calf colours (an actual leather swatch can be mailed to you or we can send by e-mail digital scans of these leathers). Logos or initials can be embossed in gold or silver or even inlaid in a contrasting leather for an extra charge (see example below in gold).

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The Playing Board:

Again the main board colour (frame and centre) can be made in all of our Dauphin colours. The centre panel can be changed if required for an additional cost. Generally speaking usually we match the playing board to the plinth.

The Monopoly� logo in the centre of the board must remain, as must the position of the “Chance” and “Community Chest” icons – however, subject to approval of the licensors, we can sometimes obtain permission to change the name of these to match a theme.

The Streets:

These are hand inlaid and can be in any of our Dauphin calf colours. Popular choices are Magnolia, which looks best with gold rather than silver embossing as this shows up better. The upper portion of each “street” which is colour coded, cannot be changed as these have to follow the “Title Deeds”.

The “streets” can be totally renamed or just in the categories, which break down as follows, all with various cost implications:

� 22 “street” names can be changed � 4 “station” names can be changed � 2 “utilities” can be changed � The 4 corner icons must remain, but the words can be changed.

To change the above within our traditional Bespoke range, we require to make art-work and embossing dies, please find attached a letter which details these costs).

OFF THE BENCH – This range, which utilises a new technology we have been perfecting allows us to permanently print any four colour image onto leather. This has huge cost and customisation advantages over the traditional hand inlaid Bespokeedition described above.

In this edition we are removing the labour cost of hand inlaying 70 pieces of leather and individually embossing these. We have also pared down the accoutrements inside the stowage tray to keep costs to a minimum so the playing pieces and cards/money are now simply stowed within padded felt compartments, rather than elaborate leather boxes etc. Also we have removed the leather dice cups and only used standard dice rather than precision. The scalloped sided plinth has become a straight-sided leather tray for a more contemporary piece.

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However, we have kept in mind that although this is meant to be a less extravagant alternative to the Bespoke piece, this should still be both elegant and excellent as any luxury item should be.

We might add though – should you wish any of the elements that are within the bespoke edition to appear in our Off the Bench piece, you only have to ask and our design team will advise costs and how these will be fitted within the game.

Customisation available:

The Tray:

Our standard Mountain Hide colours are red, black, midnight navy, turquoise, dark brown.

The board:

This is where our new technology really excels. Imagine four colour imaging throughout the playing board – club logos, pictures, sporting themes in the background or a personal message – almost anything can be done. Please note though, that like traditional litho printing gold and silver metallics do not reproduce well (this is where the Bespoke edition excels of course).

On the following page are some examples of customisations available.

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Page 4, Off the Bench playing board customisation:

The Monopoly logo in the centre of the board must remain, as must the position of the “Chance” and “Community” Chest icons – however, subject to approval of the licensors, we can sometimes obtain permission to change the name of these to match a theme.

The Streets:

The upper portion of each “street” which is colour coded, cannot be changed as these have to follow the “Title Deeds”, but the rest can, from typeface fonts to special logos and icons – basically if it can be drawn it can be reproduced.

The “streets” can be totally renamed or just in the categories, which break down as follows, all with various cost implications:

22 “street” names can be changed 4 “station” names can be changed 2 “utilities” can be changed The 4 corner icons must remain, but the words can be changed.

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An example of a Monopoly made for the Principality of Monaco

A custom Monopoly made for US Presidential candiadate & billionaire, Donald Trump

The playing board size allowing for a small border all around is approx 522 mm or 20 9/16” square.

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Bespoke/Off the Bench “OB” edition:

A very popular choice for customisation is the twinning of the “traditional” with that of “modern technology” – this is where we make a printed leather board (Off the Bench ed.) but set this within a traditional scalloped sided plinth (Bespoke ed.) – this saves on heavy origination costs for the Bespoke edition but also allows full colour imagery for the playing board but looses little of the impact of the Bespoke plinth and all the accoutrements that are provided within – a photograph below shows how attractive this can look (one word of caution though – as playing board is a printed leather and the plinth is a tanned leather – two colours will never look the same, so it is recommended that a contrast for the plinth to the board be made as shown below:

Presentation boxes “Off the Bench” board:

For those on tighter budgets but still requiring a luxury piece, we make the same printed leather board but instead of the high labour and material cost to produce a leather tray or plinth, we have designed a simple, smart black

presentation box for the board to sit in, with recesses below for all the playing pieces and cards (see above custom edition made for Virgin Money).

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Standard Houses & Hotels:

For the Off the Bench edition these are made of pewter, although these can be supplied in Sterling silver and Sterling silver-gilt (we can of course use solid Gold and even Platinum) if so desired, for an extra cost.

Custom Houses & Hotels:

However, if you wish the “Houses” to be changed to reflect a theme (for instance we made these into “stable blocks” for our “Polo” edition – see photo opposite), these are generally made in Sterling silver rather than pewter for a single set or a small run – although the unit cost of the pewter is obviously less than silver, the mould making cost is much higher, so unless you are requiring a large quantity, it is more cost effective to go with a precious metal). Or if you just require something more opulent than the standard designs, we can produce something like for example from our Billionaire edition where the “houses” have become “Georgian Town Houses” and the “hotels”, “The Ritz Hotel”. Again these can be made in Sterling silver or Sterling silver-gilt.

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Standard Tokens:

Like the “Houses” and “Hotels” these are made in pewter and are the standard Monopoly� tokens, such as the “iron”, “top hat, “boot”, “car” etc (see below left). However these can be made like the others in precious metals etc, for an extra charge (see Sterling Silver-gilt below right).

Custom Tokens:

Some examples of custom made tokens used in our “Billionaire” edition are shown below in Sterling Silver-gilt:

We have a large number of models to draw from, so it is best to send us your “wish list” and we will check our archives of what is available? If you request a token which has not been made before, then a sculpturing and mould making charge will apply – this can be quite expensive depending on size and detail, so often our customers will select something that it close to their “ideal” – e.g. we may have an “Aston Martin” but perhaps not the exact model you require?

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Title Deeds, Community Chest, Chance & “Money” for both Bespoke & Off the Bencheditions:

Title Deeds:

To reflect the playing board “street” name changes, the “Title Deeds”, “Utilities” and “Station” cards are automatically changed.

Custom Community Chest & Chance cards:

Not essential but certainly a nice touch, these cards can be changed to reflect the theme or particular “hazards” or rewards” that might be appropriate to the owner of the board. This sounds relatively easy, but this is not always the case as often it is easy to find good things rather than penalties – much thought with a set of cards in front of one will need to be employed to create these – often where one runs out of possible ideas, the standard cards are used to “fill in”.

For example on the “Polo” themed set, we could not find enough rewards associated with the game to fill all cards, so “tax windfalls” and “stock market” success were added from the standard set, all of which have a association with the type of person who would be playing Polo.

To assist you in this process, we will provide you with a spread sheet which can be simply filled in with both the board and card changes.

“Money”:

The standard values need to be adhered to on the board as this is reflected in the amount of money within the game. However the “bank notes” are non-denominational and can be any currency shown on the board. As an alternative, we can supply a “Billionaire’s” pack of money (see below) when the “street” values have been changed accordingly. For example where the UK bottom priced property (Old Kent Road) was £60 it is now £6,000,000 and the most expensive street (e.g. Mayfair) this is now worth £40,000,000 rather than just £400!

Example of a multi-language Brussels edition

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Rules:

In addition to the above changes, the rules have to be amended so that they follow the new “streets” etc. This of course will be attended to as a matter of course by our design team. Your custom edition name will be added of course..

Lead times:

To change the above within our traditional Off the Bench range, we require to make artwork only; there are no die costs to incur like within the Bespokeedition. You will though need to allow time for both origination and a production slot at our leather tanners for the printing process to be carried out – a rough estimate is around 10 weeks for a custom edition from start to finish (obviously if it is not an extensive board change and we happen to hit a production run going through – times can be less – one should advise our special commissions department if you have a particular date to meet and we will try our best to accommodate your wishes. However, if one requires custom making playing pieces which have to be sculptured and new moulds made, this can add between 4 and 6 weeks to the above making time.

Design assistance:

Please note that on first viewing, something that seemed relatively straightforward when you had the idea, has now probably after reading this, become rather complex, confusing and even daunting! Fear not – we have been doing this for years and are here to assist you through each stage – please feel free to contact us (by e-mail preferably - this makes life much easier with transferring art-work and making sure there are no mistakes on communication by telephone). Once you have decided on the amount of customisation you require and therefore established a finished cost with us, we will e-mail you a final digital mock-up for you to check for any amendments and when satisfied, sign-off.

We do at the start of the project ask for a non-returnable 50% deposit, to cover artwork costs in the unlikely event that the job does not proceed beyond this stage. This is purely to cover our designers’ time and is non refundable as the game board design cannot be used for anyone else being completely unique to yourself.

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Ultimate customisations:

The pinnacle of our work is our “exceptional pieces” which couple the World’s finest craftsmen with the World’s most exotic materials: Alligator, Ostrich, Water Snake andShagreen with solid Gold, Platinum and Silver embellished with Diamonds, Rubies, Sapphires and with the players playing with real money!

Anything is possible…………..you only have to ask!

Geoffrey Parker Games Ltd Wimbish Village Saffron Walden Essex CB10 2XJ England

Tel + 44 (0) 1799 599100 Fax + 44 (0) 1799 599733 E-mail: [email protected]

Web: www.geoffreyparker.com