Learning the Hard Way

[dlfallen]

Obviously I was not careful in closing the binder. Good thing I collect these in lower grades. Still, hate to see any damage to cards over a century old.

Any tips on making these flat again?
http://www.dlfallen.altervista.org/Files/Curved Cards (Small).jpg

[trdcrdkid]

Is there supposed to be a picture with this post?

[Oscar_Stanage]

man, that is unfortunate.
I'd throw them in a penny sleeve and a top-loader, and hopefully that would straighten them out.

[D. Bergin]

Ouch, sorry about that. I see that happening with old albums I have put away with random stuff in them all the time, stacked like you would in a bookcase.

It's not usually the inside portion like that though. It's almost always the bottom right corner spot gets curled up and damages whatever card is in that position.

Never with a T206 though. Usually something that's not worth much to begin with.

[conor912]

Oh man, that sucks. I’m not sure if a toploader is gonna do it. You may want to go the “inside the heavy book for a week with a can of paint on top” route. I am still looking a shorter name for said method :)

[Exhibitman]

Maybe invest in this sort of thing:

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41BgS2P446L._SL500_AC_SS350_.jpg

All my binders have something like this inside to prevent what happened to your cards.

[LuckyLarry]

I wonder if you dropped one in the kitchen sink and followed a method of soaking off scrapbook paper, would this do the trick?

I don't have many binders, but was advised to store them like this:

Hope you are well!

Larry

https://i.imgur.com/7GdMi89m.jpg

[todeen]

Obviously I was not careful in closing the binder. Good thing I collect these in lower grades. Still, hate to see any damage to cards over a century old.

Any tips on making these flat again?
http://www.dlfallen.altervista.org/Files/Curved Cards (Small).jpg

I made a flub like this two weeks ago with a 1934 Butterfinger Babe Ruth. They are fra-jee-lay and on very thin stock. It got stuck to adhesive. I knew in 1 second something was wrong. I was pissed as hell. All I could say was "F*** F*** F***!" My wife was blushing, she had no clue what was going on. It still hurts like hell thinking about it.

[NiceDocter]

They may never be totally flat but Ive had some limited success with putting them in a plastic sleeve under a stack of heavy books for a prolonged period of time ( check on them every few months or so) thats if you have a year or so to wait.....careful, you dont want tons of pressure on them or they will go to AUTHENTIC as being squashed. I think every one of us has had some cards or memorabilia partially desecrated over the years .... its not a good feeling but live and learn. I remember the original plastic sheets has some kind of bad chemical in them that made a lot of cards either a) turn yellow b) get brittle or c) get this oily mess all over them. To say nothing about the screw down holders we thought were great (? bullet proof ?) and then we find out later that the grading services might call these cards ALTERED because they were smashed out too flat. Dont worry, the cards are still cool and many would be happy to have ones like you do. Rocky

[ullmandds]

soak them and they might/should flatten when dried compressed.