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Originally Posted by steve B
To me lifting out dents or wrinkles is altering. I have doubts that the cardstock stays undented once it becomes dry again.
If the stuff wasn't so expensive, I'd say the spray sounds a lot like watermark detector fluid. But one little 3.4 oz bottle is about $20-25.
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It depends on the extent of the indent and how you "fix" it. If the paper fibers were broken or torn, then you're not going to unbreak them. But most card stocks are like sponges. If it's dry, it's rigid, if it's moist, it's malleable. If you take a warped or dented sponge and you get it wet, it returns to its original shape. You could say it has a memory of sorts. Most card stock is the same. The issues arise when people don't know what they're doing and they try to "fix" indents by just smashing the hell out of a card. All they're doing is damaging the paper fibers. This can often be detected.
But if you simply toss a card into a humidor, you're not going to damage it at all, and you can often get the card to "remember" its original form, just like a sponge.
Here's an example: I put my 61 Koufax into a humidor and these surface indents disappeared. No smashing needed. Just some moisture was all it took. If this is considered "doctoring", then so is shipping a card from Vegas to New Orleans.