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Wednesday, April 29, 2026

Miscuts by drunken Topps printing plant workers

 Based on a previous post Egreenwo from TCDB reached out with a fantastic collection of things that were Miscut so badly that I can only assume the printing staff was drunk. He sent me  picture with a stack of 18 or 20 cards laid out on a table and I could tell I needed to act.  That's all you really gotta do, is send me a sample of some of what you got and if it fails to meet any standards by my own really low ones I'll offer up some stuff in trade.  I think I sent back some commons and recent stuff to fill in slots on his set builds.  I sort of like waiting until they show up to go thru everything and this was a pleasure to do so with.  I Decided that really bad miscuts should go into the set, the more off kilter the better. 

Looks like they had some Quality Control problems in 1984.  Especially on the White Sox card which is more a parallelogram than a rectangle.  

1975 was even worse apparently.  With no borders to line up with and colors cutting the card in half it's a wonder they got any of these into packs as they were designed.  

And the backs were no better.


This one takes the cake.  I pity the poor kid who pulled this, especially if he had been experimenting with the old Wackey Tabaccey.  If you opened up your pack of cards in 1975 to get a couple of these you might be especially confused but Freehan here is a 6 sided disaster that, as far as I can tell, 4 sides are not even parallel to anything, which is actually something of an accomplishment if you stop to consider it.  This one might very well have blown some kids mind and put him off cards forever. 


Or maybe he found his true calling and now works for Topps Quality Control Office: Edge & Corners division.  There is much to be desired about the current quality of Fanatic Topps, but at least all the ones I see are straight and square. If you have a miscut like this from the last 10 years I want it.  Badly.  




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Miscuts by drunken Topps printing plant workers

 Based on a previous post Egreenwo from TCDB reached out with a fantastic collection of things that were Miscut so badly that I can only ass...