Of Course If You Wanted Something A Bit Bigger Than A Split Pea,

you could have bought one of these,

a toy boat or two from the Malcolm Forbes toy collection, the collection of toys amassed over almost 40 years by the late millionaire Malcolm Forbes and his sons sold for $2.3 million at auction in New York, one of the most expensive items sold was a 3-foot-long replica of the ocean liner Lusitania which was sold for $194,500 - a record amount for a toy boat, crikey you could buy a real one for that amount, but again that is not the point, many of the toys here are over 90 years old,

but one of the 'newer' toys was a Monopoly game-set of circular design, handmade by Charles Darrow, probably 1933, and descended in his family, of interest to us as we play Monopoly a few times a week, the gameset sold for $146,500, well-above the $80,000 high estimate, it is the earliest Darrow set known to survive, the only one of circular shape, and the earliest to include the rules, but at that price a bit out of our league!