1974 Topps Red Team Checklists - Uncut Sheet

[Fleerfan]

After looking at your picture, I checked my uncut sheet, and mine does have the teams you are missing in the first column. Very strange that your sheet repeats the first column of teams in the 4th column. I wonder if the repeated teams are a result of the way the larger sheet was laid out so when these were cut out that the teams ended up being repeated (essentially resulting in some teams being double printed on the larger sheet), or whether your sheets were some of the earliest sheets printed, with a correction being made at some point to get all 24 different teams.

[deweyinthehall]

You don't have an extra one of those you'd be interested in selling do you?

[JollyElm]

It's possible there's another explanation as well. In my mind, and with no other info, I would guess that the sheet in question was simply cut wrong. Perhaps (just speculation) someone in-house noted the miscut and threw the scrap out...and then someone 'rescued' it/them from the Topps dumpster? Of course, it could simply be an error cut that wasn't noticed and got sent out to a kid in 1974. But these cards were included in packs, so they had to go through the 'regular' printing process, too. It's possible that what you have here is a partial uncut sheet and that's why multiples of cards are showing. (This is probably doubtful based on the edges of the sheet being trimmed so closely and correctly, matching what the mailed-out sheets looked like, but it has to be considered, and it's conceivable that it came from late in the printing process.)

[steve B]

I think Darren has the answer. The sheets were 11 across by 12 cards tall. The team checklist sheets mailed out are 4x6, so fit 2 panels high perfectly, but 2 3/4 panels across. it's likely Topps printed all 11 columns repeating 3 of them. (The other side of the full 264 card press sheet probably had a different 3 columns repeated, so there are probably shortprints just in case anyone cares )
A simple miscutting starting at the wrong edge, and there they are, a bunch of incorrect panels.