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Originally Posted by JollyElm
How did you do that? Soaking?
I see the 'after' cards are much yellower than the 'before' cards and the Rosen has distinct rectangular areas of yellow. What was your method?
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The yellow discoloration is a product of a cheap scanner. The Rosen does have the rectangular area of yellow you mention. I paid another person to remove the ink. He did it cheaply as he was working on a process to remove such ink markings. Although I like these two cards they were not very valuable or rare so I thought it was worth the risk. I am unsure of the method but I think it was a chemical bath of some type. The central area of the card was minimally effected I assume some sort of mask was used to protect it. There also appears to be a slight loss of gloss to the area where the ink was. I decided not to send in more cards as the price of the cards combined with the removal was equivalent to buying an unmarked version. My intent initially was to determine if ink removal was a possibility. I have some T206s that have ink stains which I was considering sending in but I lacked the courage despite the impressive results of the work completed on the 1952 Topps. The website address is
http://www.gonewiththestain.com/. He was very professional and
easy to work with. I was pleased with his efforts. He was interviewed by SCD a number of years ago
http://www.sportscollectorsdigest.co...res/nerattowle.
01-23-2013, 01:31 AM
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