Restoring cards

[pepis]

Originally Posted by ALR-bishop

Jose---Peace. I collect ungraded cards. Have since 1957. Some may be doctored. I don't care. It is just a hobby for me. I understand both the necessity and consternation over grading standards and card manipulation among those for whom it is both a hobby and an investment, or just an investment. I am glad to say I just don't care about all that. I just enjoy the hobby and collecting the sets/cards I want/enjoy.

Very nice Al,
that makes you a true blue collector pretty rare this days, i opened my 1st
pack in 1959 but i didn't really get it until 1961 and by 1964 i was completely
hooked, in 1967 or 68 i went to what many belive was the first card shop
in So Cal (orange cty) owned by one of the nicest man i ever met in the hobby
his name was Will Davis a couple of years later i met another great collector
dealer name Frank Kish, pretty nice times greed wasn't arround then.

[Bocabirdman]

If you are paid for a service, by definition you are a professional. There are folks that get paid to clean cards. I am an amateur soaker