1970 O-Pee-Chee Ted Collins #72 Winnipeg Blue Bombers G-VG 3 Miscut

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1970 O-Pee-Chee Ted Collins #72 Winnipeg Blue Bombers G-VG 3 Miscut Add a fascinating factory anomaly to your collection with this unusual 1970 O-Pee-Chee Ted Collins #72 Winnipeg Blue Bombers G-VG 3 Miscut card, a genuine production miscut that showcases the human element of vintage card manufacturing while still celebrating one of Winnipegs most respected Canadian tackles. The context that makes this card so interesting is the history of the 1970 O-Pee-Chee CFL set itself, a 115 card Canadian exclusive printed in Canada that paired the same vivid front game day photography as the American Topps release with the unmistakable Canadian O-Pee-Chee bilingual back on black stock with full English and French biographies, player vitals, import status and the playful lime green cartoon box, a set produced on vintage cutting equipment where sheet alignment was manual and where miscuts and extra material are documented and collected as authentic factory errors rather than handling damage. Ted Collins is a standout within that checklist as a non import tackle from the University of Detroit listed at six feet one inch and 260 pounds who as the back notes plays offence and defence equally well but prefers defensive play and who worked in the off season as a High School teacher, noted on the card as Professeur d ecole secondaire, a Canadian who represented the community minded CFL ideal of the era, and his green cartoon that declares TED PREFERS THE DEFENSIVE and TED PREFERE LA DEFENSIVE with a lively on field illustration is a collector favorite that adds character to this already unique copy. The front photograph shows Collins in his white number 63 jersey and gold pants in a low three point stance with hand on the turf and Winnipeg Stadium in the background, a classic early seventies line pose that remains striking even on a miscut example. This is a Canadian O-Pee-Chee bilingual back printed in Canada, the correct Canadian issue, and the factory miscut adds a layer of intrigue for error collectors and set builders who appreciate authentic production variations. This 1970 O-Pee-Chee Ted Collins #72 Winnipeg Blue Bombers G-VG 3 Miscut card is priced to reflect its manufacturing quirk while still offering strong historical appeal. The front and back reveal a clear factory miscut with extra material left along one vertical side, correctly cut and straight along the bottom portion but showing a noticeable excess border and uneven factory edge for most of the length of the side where the sheet was not trimmed to the standard white border, resulting in an asymmetrical white border that measures far wider than normal and gives the card an irregular rectangular outline, centering therefore cannot be measured in the usual way due to the extra stock, corners along the correctly cut portion show light softening with minor whitening while the miscut edge shows a rough factory cut rather than handling chipping, surface gloss is intact with no creases, wrinkles or collector induced creasing, and the back shows the same excess material on the corresponding black stock edge with the green TED PREFERS THE DEFENSIVE cartoon fully intact and bilingual text fully legible, warranting a conservative Good to Very Good 3 Miscut grade that accurately reflects a factory error rather than circulation wear. Grade Estimate: VG 3