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Originally Posted by Cliff Bowman
You are correct about there having to be “DP” rows in the 1955 Topps 3rd Series, each slit has 11 rows which would come out to 22 rows over two slits. There are five unique rows in the 1955 3rd Series so if each row is printed 4 times that comes out to 20 rows, that means there would be two more rows printed again for a total of 5x for each of those rows. The 1955 Topps 2nd Series was the opposite, there were six unique rows in that series so that meant that two of the six rows had to be printed 3x rather than 4x in order to fill out the 22 rows over the two slits. There ended up being two “SP” rows in the 1955 2nd Series.
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I'm pretty sure Stanky alongside some of the others in seemingly abundant supply will end up being on one of the extra rows, but maybe I should refrain from these guesses when we may be able to actually prove something. I don't know how much data you guys have outside this thread for the high numbers but I will keep looking for other miscuts. Hopefully other folks can add their own miscuts.
Is there a chart of the cards numbers and rows/columns for the second series? I saw the post in the other thread but it appears the columns are reversed or off? My 55 set is long ago complete minus Clemente who I don't want to pay $1,500 for just yet but I am curious. 54 and 55 are two of the better ones to identify as the series have not been positively known outside of series 1.