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steve kNick - A family friend worked as a sales rep for Globe Ticket Company in the 60's and 70's. Globe has printed zillions of sports tickets for MLB and others. They made-up presentation sets(kits) containing an assortment of tickets to illustate the quality, variety, paper stock, etc., for him to show to prospective buyers. He was also given overuns to hand out as samples of interesting special tickets such as the Kentucky Derby - the tickets were unnumbered so they couldn't actually be used at the sporting event. Probably Topps also made-up some sort of presentation sets for their sales reps to show, or to display in other situations for promotional puposes.