1961 Post Cereal "Company" cards miscut

[whiteymet]

Hi Gang:

Just picked up something I have never seen in my 60+ years of collecting Post Cereal cards I recall sending away for a 1961 Phillies company sheet from the offer on the box,

These were a 10 card perforated sheet and the cards are now called "company" vs those cut from the "box"

Full sheets are very difficult to find as most of us kids at the time of course pulled the cards apart from the sheet. If anyone is interested, I do have a full sheet of the White Sox available. Message me for details.

But what I am referencing above about what I just picked up are miscut cards from a company sheet I assume. Not sure how this could happen but as you will see the perforations are in a different place than originally planned. The first three cards show part of one card with part of another beneath with the perfs along the top and bottom as is normal for regular "company" cards.

The next three show the perforation line along the line of stars above the players name

The final photo shows Johnny Temple's card where the top has been pulled off at that same perforated line through the stars.

Anyone else have any like this?

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[raulus]

Sweet looking miscuts, Fred!

I’ve never seen similar pieces. But I suppose it seems entirely possible, just with quality control for whoever was adding the perforations to the cards.

[AustinMike]

I've never seen anything like that either Fred. I guess their QA/QC was generally good enough to catch those types of mistakes before they went out the door.

PS I sent away for the Yankees in '61 and yes, I separated them.

[nolemmings]

Very interesting and neat cards. One curious thing though-- why would the owner of this sheet ignore the perforations and cut some of the cards along proper borders but choose to have the others separated along their perforation lines where they would create obviously unattractive miscuts?

[Zach Wheat]

Nice cards Fred. I am not familiar with them, but definitely an interesting piece.