The 1974-75 Finnish Typotor set of 120 unnumbered cards is really two subsets. A 48-card Finnish SM-Liiga set of eight teams containing six players each, and a 72-card set of eight international teams with nine players each. There are also 45 penalty/referee cards not identified by Beckett, for a total of 165 cards.
The cards are rectangular with rounded edges and were sold in sets by Typotor Oy of Helsinki, Finland.
The SM-Liiga set features Finnish greats like Matti Murto and Pekka Rautakallio. The players of the leading clubs of the Finnish championship are
represented: HIFK Helsinki, Ilves Tampere, Jokerit Helsinki, Lukko Rauma,
Tappara Tampere, TPS Turku, Turun Toverit and Ässät Pori.
Key cards in the international set include Ulf Nilsson, Vladislav Tretiak and Boris Mikhailov, along with other players from the World Hockey Championship held in Helsinki in April 1974. The teams represented are Finland, Sweden, Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Poland and Germany (the six teams from Group A), as well as Norway (from Group B) and Switzerland (from Group C).
The cards are part of a game and came with an instruction sheet and header card.
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