A nice long soaking

[FrankWakefield]

While warm water loosens up dirt quicker, cool or room temperature water will fade the water soluble inks less quickly. I suggest using cold tap water, and if there's ink on the card from a pen or a stamp, watch it for a few minutes, to see if that ink starts dissolving or bleeding. And change the water more often.

I've not soaked a triple folder, but I think they would soak just fine. I've only owned one of those. If you have more than one, soak someone other than the Cobb, first, just to see how it goes. Seems to me that they're contemporary with T205's, 6's, and 7's, and from similar material, so they should soak just fine.

[Orions father]

First of all I must say I am not a fan of soaking. In my humble opinion, I feel it is an alteration. That being said I would like to share the following. The 1925 Exhibit card below was accidenately left out in the rain, along with other mail, for two days. After I discovered it total bloated and bendable, I figured the card was a total loss so I threw it on my dash board, still in the soft plastic holder. After another two days, it had dried out so I took it out of the sheet and put it on a shelf and forgot about it untill a couple days ago. Am amazed how the ink did not run after at least 3 days of being soaked, guess they dont make ink like they used to. After this experience, I could safely say 1925 Exhibits (and most other similar Exhibits) stand up very well to being soaked, even if your not trying.

[t206hound]

This Sweeney from the Beantown lot I purchased was pretty dirty. Tried an overnight soak and it cleaned up only slightly... more time in the dip?

[lharri3600]

I don't know erik,that may be it??:d

Originally Posted by t206hound

this sweeney from the beantown lot i purchased was pretty dirty. Tried an overnight soak and it cleaned up only slightly... More time in the dip?

[Jaybird]

there may not be a point to getting it cleaner since it has paper loss on the back. It would only be a "2" based on that alone.

[t206hound]

Originally Posted by Jaybird

there may not be a point to getting it cleaner since it has paper loss on the back. It would only be a "2" based on that alone.

I don't know if the soaking made a difference or not, but the card came back as a 40 from SGC.

[Jaybird]

Wow! Isn't that paperloss in the C and G of Cigarette?

I had a tiny spot in the white on a Near Mint cornered card that came back "2". That's what I was basing my experience on. Have submitted others with paperloss spots (not patches) and always come back SGC 30.