DELUXE EDITION SCRABBLE CROSSWORD GAME.  "Beautifully framed revolving board with finely finished plastic tiles and ingenious scoring racks." "No. 71"  "c 1967 by Production and Marketing Company."

This very cool Scrabble Game
Box top and bottom both have one split corner, and have normal shelf/edge wear. Game and box are in very good condition for their age.



History (from Wikipedia)
In 1948, James Brunot,[6] a resident of Newtown, Connecticut -- and one of the few owners of the original Criss-Crosswords game-- bought the rights to manufacture the game in exchange for granting Butts a royalty on every unit sold. Though he left most of the game (including the distribution of letters) unchanged, Brunot slightly rearranged the "premium" squares of the board and simplified the rules; he also changed the name of the game to "Scrabble," a real word which means "to scratch frantically." In 1949, Brunot and his family made sets in a converted former schoolhouse in Dodgington, a section of Newtown. They made 2,400 sets that year, but lost money.[7] According to legend, Scrabble's big break came in 1952 when Jack Strauss, president of Macy's, played the game on vacation. Upon returning from vacation, he was surprised to find that his store did not carry the game. He placed a large order and within a year, "everyone had to have one."[8] In 1952, unable to meet demand himself, Brunot sold manufacturing rights to Long Island-based Selchow and Righter (one of the manufacturers who, like Parker Brothers and Milton Bradley Company, had previously rejected the game). Selchow & Righter bought the trademark to the game in 1972[9] JW Spears began selling the game in Australia and the UK on January 19, 1955. The company is now a subsidiary of Mattel, Inc.[5] In 1986, Selchow and Righter sold the game to Coleco, who soon after went bankrupt. The company's assets, including Scrabble and Parchesi were purchased by Hasbro.[9]