A year or so ago, I was quite active on Listia - but a string of bad experiences (mostly sellers not sending the item I won) left me feeling sort of sour. Then, over the past six months or so I've noticed that there has been severe credit inflation on the site - so much so that my 1,900 some odd credits were basically worthless. This soured me even more.
For some unknown reason though, I clicked over to Listia last week and did a quick search for Allen & Ginter thinking maybe I could snag a card or two that I needed. As luck would have it, I ended up having just enough credits to land a single mini card from the 2014 Allen & Ginter set.
That's John Trumbull from the Where Nature Ends mini insert set. Before landing this card, I was still missing a decent sized chunk of the set (six in all) - and at least now that number is down to only five (
view my full want list here).
I never took an art class in college so I don't know much about many of the artists in the insert set. According to the card back, Trumball was the son of a Connecticut governor. Trumball was a Harvard graduate who was blind in one eye and painted works such as
The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker Hill (which I never heard of by name but I've definitely seen the painting).
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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_General_Warren_at_the_Battle_of_Bunker%27s_Hill,_June_17,_1775 |
Trumball also painted
The Declaration of Independence which is featured on the back of the $2 bill.
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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Trumbull |
A fun fact about the $2 bill - I keep one of those in my wallet wherever I go. I don't know if it's superstition or if I want to make sure I can always buy a drink if I'm completely parched...but I haven't gone anywhere without that $2 bill since I first put it in my wallet about ten years ago!
While I may not be real likely to return to Listia any time soon, I do have to thank the seller for providing me with a nice learning opportunity (and, just as importantly, I get to remove one more card from
my want list)!
PS: Happy Labor Day everyone... While you (most likely) get the day off, my college is in full session (we are beginning week 3 already)! I guess there's worse problems to have than having to labor on Labor Day.
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