Thinking of Soaking off Scrap paper from '55 Clementes

[pclpads]

So what have you got to lose? It's not like you are fooling with a NM card. From the pics, I'd call it VG at best even w/o the excess paper. So, a successful soaking attempt won't raise the initial grade. I did the soak act a while ago with a couple of '52T having the same kind of excess paper. Paper came off no sweat, after a 30 min soak in warm tap water. After removing the excess paper, I pressed both cards inside a few paper towels like Bounty, to suck up the moisture, stuck them enclosed in the Bounty wrap on a hard flat surface weighted down with three cinder blocks. Checked on the effort in 24 hours and . . . Bingo! Mission accomplished!

[LACardsGuy]

this is same thing i have been doing on the other commons. What I have to lose is if it just destroys card. I had a bad experience trying to do this with a '34 Hank Greenberg years ago. DESTROYED the card. Big bummer

Originally Posted by pclpads

So what have you got to lose? It's not like you are fooling with a NM card. From the pics, I'd call it VG at best even w/o the excess paper. So, a successful soaking attempt won't raise the initial grade. I did the soak act a while ago with a couple of '52T having the same kind of excess paper. Paper came off no sweat, after a 30 min soak in warm tap water. After removing the excess paper, I pressed both cards inside a few paper towels like Bounty, to suck up the moisture, stuck them enclosed in the Bounty wrap on a hard flat surface weighted down with three cinder blocks. Checked on the effort in 24 hours and . . . Bingo! Mission accomplished!

[LACardsGuy]

After days and days of hemming and hawing, i pulled the trigger. Scrapbook paper came right off. There does seem to be some shininess where the glue was, but i can live with it. No damage and fronts (if anything) look a bit cleaner than before. Suppose I could do it again to try to get the glue (?) off, but I don't want to tempt fate.

[IMG]clementes by Philip Golden, on Flickr[/IMG]

[IMG]clemente backs by Philip Golden, on Flickr[/IMG]

[Snowman]

Originally Posted by LACardsGuy

After days and days of hemming and hawing, i pulled the trigger. Scrapbook paper came right off. There does seem to be some shininess where the glue was, but i can live with it. No damage and fronts (if anything) look a bit cleaner than before. Suppose I could do it again to try to get the glue (?) off, but I don't want to tempt fate.

[IMG]clementes by Philip Golden, on Flickr[/IMG]

[IMG]clemente backs by Philip Golden, on Flickr[/IMG]

Looks great! Nice work. I would be happy with that. It now looks like a nice card that was carefully removed from a scrapbook. Nothing wrong with that.

[FrankWakefield]

Congratulations!

You have two nice looking Clemente cards. And you learned quite a bit. If you gather other cards with scrapbook remnants, paste, or glue, one day... you may recognize that what you've learned is more valuable than the 2 Clemente cards.