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Dec. 17, 2010 was a nail-biter for the staff at the National Museum of Play. Its curator made the 250-mile trip from Rochester, N.Y., to New York where he sat in Sotheby's wood-paneled auction room. "It was our curator and a phone bidder—just the two of them," recalled collections vp Christopher Bensch, "and it was all over in under a minute." The museum parted with $146,500 but gained a crown jewel. The world's oldest known Monopoly board had been sold.
Monopoly turns 80 this year, and while you might think that the digital age and the effects of the Great Recession would dampen enthusiasm for a board game that's all about foreclosures and bankruptcies, neither has.
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