(Original Artwork: Non-Sports Trading Cards) ORIGINAL PEN, INK AND WATERCOLOR ARTWORK FOR GUM, INC.'S 1938 HORRORS OF WAR CARD #286: CHAMBERLAIN MEETS HITLER IN PEACE EFFORT; SOLD WITH A PSA 8 NM-MT GRADED EXAMPLE OF THE CARD. Phila., Pa.: Gum, Inc., 1938. Original drawing on artist board measures 2-3/8" x 2-15/16"; published card with the artwork printed in full color to front, and titles printed in black to back, measures 2-1/2" x 3-3/16"; card is graded PSA 8 NM-MT and is encapsulated within a PSA plastic holder. Gum, Inc.'s 1938 Horrors of War trading cards are the most popular and most sought out non-sports cards ever produced. According to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's website: "Initially conceived as a way to graphically illustrate and inform the public about the atrocities of the Chinese-Japanese War, the Italian invasion of Ethiopia, and the Spanish Civil War, the set proved so popular that an additional 48 cards were added [to the original 240] about Germany and the beginning of World War II." Many of the images in the set are shocking, even by today's standards. Scenes of torture, bloody battlefields and children under attack are all shown in graphic detail; printed on the back of every card in the set is the publisher's explanation for showing such graphic scenes: "To know the HORRORS OF WAR is to want PEACE;" it would seem that the lesson was not learned. The most sought out and expensive cards in the Horrors of War set are the three cards that feature Adolf Hitler: #'s 277, 283 and 286. This offering is for the original artwork for, and a PSA 8 NM-MT example of card #286, i.e., one of the three most desirable cards in the most highly collected non-sports cards set in the history of trading cards. The condition of the original artwork is FINE. The condition of the published card is NM-MT. #001045