Here’s a fourth mini set from Allen & Ginter that I’ve completed. This is a catch-up post for a set I actually completed back near the end of 2014.
Info about the set:
Set description: “Furtive characters come out of the shadows on these 10 cards.”
Appropriate for the tone of Allen & Ginter, these mini cards highlight some of the mysterious figures in known history.
Set composition: 10 cards, 1:15 odds (2011 Allen & Ginter)
Hall of Famers: Not a sports set.
How I put the set together:
- 3 cards from 2 hobby boxes
- 3 cards from trades
- 4 cards from Sportlots
Thoughts on the set: This is done in the semi-bizarre fashion of so many other Ginter sets, which are always a fun thing to collect. This set is no different.
Card that completed my set: #WMF9 – Babushka Lady
I got this card back in August 2014 from COMC. The Babushka Lady was a woman in a head scarf seen in recordings of JFK’s assassination. She is seen with a camera “recording” the screen, but the FBI was never to identify the woman or obtain her photographs.
Best card (my opinion): #WMF7 – The Man in the Iron Mask
The 1998 film by that title, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jeremy Irons and John Malkovich, is one of my favorite movies. This figure was a prisoner in France during the reign of Louis XIV. He wore a mask at all times, and was usually held in a prison with two doors so no one could hear him. His actual identity has long been the subject of rumor; Voltaire speculated he was an illegitimate half-brother of King Louis.
- WMF1 – Rasputin
- WMF2 – The Poe Toaster
- WMF3 – Kasper Hauser
- WMF4 – Fulcanelli
- WMF5 – D.B. Cooper
- WMF6 – The Count of St. Germain
- WMF7 – The Man in the Iron Mask
- WMF8 – Nostradamus
- WMF9 – The Babushka Lady
- WMF10 – Captain Charles Johnson
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