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Posted By: Reid Bruce

It seems possible that the same card was printed in vertical rows and that there were different cards horizontally. In other words, the printing sheets may have had five, ten or more different cards on them (side by side) and each card was duplicated vertically. (I'm no printing expert, but couldn't you have a printing plate with each card side by side and then feed through a sheet progressively...almost like an old Xerox mimeograph machine, just with one long sheet of paper. This may explain diamond cuts on cards. In other words, the cards might not have been "miscut" but instead certain rows of printed cards might have been misprinted on the sheets by misfeeding the paper into the machine so that when the sheets were cut, the misprinted and misfed cards appeared to have been miscut.) Just pure dreaming and speculation...