1941-1945 Wartime Editions
In 1941 the 1924 Landlord’s Game patent expired so it was dropped from the packaging. The games from this era are known as single 2nd patent games. The editions available at this time were dropped down to the #6 (black and blue), #8, and #9. Other than dropping the earlier patent on the boxes the sets were basically unchanged in 1941.
1942-1945 was another story. WW2 created a metal shortage so a new composite token (some of these were used in 1935 as substitutes) was substituted in the #8 and #9 editions (the #6 blue box retained its wooden tokens and the #6 black box received wooden tokens and the tokens were removed from the graphics on the box). These tokens are not as rare as thought as they were made for 3 years.
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