Topps high checklist
Because checklists for most series were printed in multiple print runs, they should appear in a SP row for a 77 card series (i.e., a row printed 3x across the two slits). This is because they would be double printed (3x in prior series, 3x in current series). Usually, but not always, the bottom row on each slit was a row printed 3x, so a checklist might appear in that row.
This does not apply for checklist #1 since it was only printed in series 1 print run but it was double-printed in that run. Series 1 for many Topps years in the 1960s had 109 unique cards. These cards would be distributed as ten unique rows of 11 cards each, with the checklist # 1 appearing twice (110 - 1 = 109). The ten unique rows typically had four rows appearing 3x and the remaining six rows appearing 2x (thus a total of 24 rows, 264 cards). Sometimes, checklist #1 was printed 5x (in other words, it was in one of the 3x rows and one in the 2x rows) but I also have seen it in two of the 3x rows (so it was printed 6x).
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