I don’t focus too much Allen & Ginter, but I did finish off another regular size insert set from the 2012 product.
Info about the set:
Set description: “20 cards featuring great battles, speeches, and decisions that helped determine the course of civilization.”
Set composition: 20 cards, 1:10 odds (2012 Allen & Ginter)
Hall of Famers: None – it’s not a sports set.
How I put the set together:
- 3 cards from my hobby box
- 1 card from a retail pack
- 7 cards from trades
- 6 cards from Sportlots
- 2 cards from Beckett Marketplace
- 1 card from COMC
Card that completed my set: #HTP18 – On the Origin of Species
Charles Darwin was the last card I needed. I got it May last year from COMC.
Thoughts on the set: This set fits in pretty well with the Allen & Ginter themes. It’s always good to learn some history! Though it’s more generic / not as unique as some of the mini sets from 2012. Also, I would have preferred adding the invention of the internet to get something more recent included.
Best card (my opinion): #HTP5 – The Fall of the Berlin Wall
I love French history, and wanted to go with either the French Revolution or the Battle of Waterloo. However, I think going with an event from my lifetime made more sense.
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Any other tidbits: Here’s a list of the events, with the year they occurred. I always prefer chronologically for sets like this, but Topps never obliges.
- HTP1 – Signing of the Declaration of Independence, 1776.
- HTP2 – The Battle of Waterloo, 1815.
- HTP3 – The Fall of the Roman Empire, 476.
- HTP4 – The Reformation, 16th century.
- HTP5 – The Fall of the Berlin Wall, 1989.
- HTP6 – The Treaty of Versailles, 1919.
- HTP7 – Invention of the Printing Press, 1440.
- HTP8 – Allied Victory in WWII, 1945.
- HTP9 – Discovery of the New World, 1492.
- HTP10 – Discovery of Electricity, 1752.
- HTP11 – Signing of the Magna Carta, 1215.
- HTP12 – The Renaissance, 14th to 17th centuries.
- HTP13 – The Industrial Revolution, 1760 to 1850.
- HTP14 – The Emancipation Proclamation, 1863.
- HTP15 – The First Flight of Kitty Hawk, 1903.
- HTP16 – The French Revolution, 1788-1799.
- HTP17 – The Great Depression, 1929 to the 1930s.
- HTP18 – On the Origin of Species, 1859.
- HTP19 – Sputnik I, 1957.
- HTP20 – The Agricultural Revolution, 18th and 19th centuries.
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