About soaking cards

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Posted By: Frank Wakefield

Well I just got done with some soaking. 2 1933 Goudey cards. I'd been told years ago, by a very wise experienced collector who used to put scrapbook pages in a bathtub at night so the cards would be off by morning, anyway he said Goudeys wouldn't soak well. Dan Mc told me they would soak just fine. Dan was right. Paper scrap is gone from the back of Sam Rice, I can read the green print!!! And gobs of altering paste are now gone from Red Lucas. Thank you, Dan, thank you water.

Now if I can find my Combs Goudey, it was almost solid paste, the card was twice its normal thickness. He needs a soaking. He'd been segregated because of the paste, and I've misplaced him. With a good soaking I can unalter him back to his original state and put him with his fellow Goudeys.

And I got an email from Rob, the daddy of this post. I asked him how he now felt about his soaking experience (the card, not this monsterous thread), and he said, "Hi Frank, yes very satisfied. Bob" Another soaker swells our ranks! Might get T-shirts printed for the National, with a T206 half imursed in a glass of water.


And a final last thought, since I'll read but post no more here... The grading companies LOVE soaking. Think it through. Who'll grade a card with scrapbook on the back? Hardly anyone. But after soaking, the companies will have many more cards being sent in for grading. They truly love it. Where will the PSA 8s come from if not for soaking???