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Pay Day

Board Game
1975 (manufactured)
Artist/Maker
Parker Brothers (manufacturers)
Place of origin
USA (manufactured)

Card box, printed in colours to show the title, maker's details and illustrations of comic characters; based on a calendar month. Contains a playing surface board, lottery tickets, notes, postcards, savings and loans records, bag of counters and dice, plus a set of printed paper instructions.

Object details

Object type
Board game
Parts
This object consists of 16 parts.

  • Packaging
  • Packaging
  • Packing Materials
  • Packing Materials
  • Board Game
  • Cards
  • Instructions
  • Display Arrangement
  • Playing Pieces
  • Die
  • Cards
  • Paper Money
  • Paper Money
  • Paper Money
  • Paper Money
  • Score Pad
TitlePay Day (manufacturer's title)
Materials and techniques
Printed card, injection-moulded plastic
Card
Plastic
Printed
Injection-Moulding
Brief description
Pay Day, Parker Bros, USA, 1975
Physical description
Card box, printed in colours to show the title, maker's details and illustrations of comic characters; based on a calendar month. Contains a playing surface board, lottery tickets, notes, postcards, savings and loans records, bag of counters and dice, plus a set of printed paper instructions.
Dimensions
  • Length: 20in
  • Width: 10in
  • Depth: 1½in
Production typemass produced
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'PAY / DAY' (Printed on box lid)
  • 'Parker / Brothers / "Where does / all the / money go?" / Game' (Printed on the box lid)
  • 'Ever wonder where all the / money goes? Here's your / chance to find out. PAY DAY / is the game that actually makes / working and paying bills fun! / The action takes place on a calendar / playing board where something / different happens on practically every / day of the week. You'll receive all sorts / of mail - some good, some not so good / - and you'll probably get a chance to to / make a quick deal or strike it rich in the / lottery. Maybe you'll give tow politics / a try, or get together with some friends / and gamble away your savings. / The real day of reckoning comes at the / end of the month - PAY DAY! Time / to collect your salary, pay your bills / and remember the interest due on all / those loans. Then you're off to another / merry month of trying to figure out / were all that money went.' (Printed on the box base)
Credit line
Given by the Palitoy Company
Object history
Part of the Palitoy Archive
Production
Reason For Production: retail
Subjects depicted
Wages
Money
Other number
No. 26 - product number
Collection
Young V&A Collection
Accession number
B.1217:1 to 9-1999

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Record createdJuly 25, 2000
Record URL
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