Completed insert set – 2012 Allen & Ginter Historical Turning Points

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.”

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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.