Restoring cards

[pepis]

I gues is acceptable if you pay a pro to do it,
http://www.t206museum.com/page/periodical_110.html

[the 'stache]

Originally Posted by pepis

I gues is acceptable if you pay a pro to do it,
http://www.t206museum.com/page/periodical_110.html

Who does the restoration shouldn't matter at all. And to be honest, I have a major problem with this particular "project". Look at the card prior to "restoration", and the finished product. There wasn't even a border to the card. Now there is. None of that paper was original to the card.

This is blasphemous, in my opinion.

[Bestdj777]

The worst thing about that Wagner restoration is that they destroyed other T206 cards to add a boarder and back to this card. Although people are free to do what they want, I can't imagine how a T206 fan would allow them to cut up another T206 to improve his card.

[the 'stache]

Originally Posted by Bestdj777

The worst thing about that Wagner restoration is that they destroyed other T206 cards to add a boarder and back to this card. Although people are free to do what they want, I can't imagine how a T206 fan would allow them to cut up another T206 to improve his card.

Agreed, Bestdj. From reading the article, there were multiple donor cards. They might not have had the monetary value of the Wagner (pre or post "restoration"), but that's now two or three (or more) T206 cards that are now gone forever because somebody wanted to make a few more bucks. Every T206, from the Wagner down, is a piece of history, and now they'll never be enjoyed by a collector.

It saddens me.