Another Nice PSA Graded Card - T207 Lewis

[Leon]

Originally Posted by Popcorn

it’s the real deal.. was glued to a scrap book.

seriously?

[Popcorn]

Originally Posted by Leon

seriously?

yes it was discovered with about 30 others... only alteration is that it sat in water over night.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by Popcorn

yes it was discovered with about 30 others... only alteration is that it sat in water over night.

Looks like the front is glued to the back....could be the soaking I guess...

[oldeboo]

Woof. Looks like it was maybe soaked in gasoline then hit with a blow torch for a few seconds. Wonder how they determined it's a no emblem with that amount of alteration. Aren't the emblems simply an overprint that could be removed with that amount of damage? Meaning it wouldn't leave a void where it should be, could be wrong on that.

[steve B]

The emblems would be under the gloss, so mechanical removal would leave a dull spot, just like erasing something from a modern card.

Red also fades really easily, but the "Boston" on the uniform is ok, so maybe not faded.

What's more concerning is how ragged the printing of the border around the name is. The inks of the time weren't water soluble, so just water wouldn't do that.
If you look at the name boxes on other examples, they are lighter than the borders. On this one the color is uniform.

Overall, either a complete outlier, or very iffy.

[Leon]

Scrapbook pics...

[ullmandds]

So likely the combination of whatever glue was used...combined with whatever happened to these cards while in storage...combined with the chemicals/methods used to remove these cards caused the card to look this way. Definitely not just water!!!