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RichardCan you say "quality control"?
It's like I've said many times, early football cards never got the respect or interest as baseball, so Topps probably never felt the need to correct things, since nobody cared.
I'm also willing to bet that the annual Beckett price guides mention nothing about it either, but that collectors, and even catalog editors, may have known about things like this for quite some time.
It sure seems that previously unknown varieties and uncorrected errors, in vintage football, are starting to pop up more frequently. Maybe the catalog editors will actually start throwing FB collectors a bone and at least mention some of these things in their books.