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ramramWhat are your thoughts on "this side" of the board with regard to clipped cards? What about cleaning a card?
For instance, I've purchased a couple of Old Judge cabinet cards that have the bottom clipped off. To me, I'm buying the albumen image and not the ad on the bottom of the cabinet card anyway and the cost was a fraction of what it would have been.
What about cleaning a cabinet card? I treat it like artwork and have no problem with cleaning it up, whereas most true card collectors treat it like a patina and leave the grime. I've got another OJ cabinet card (clipped) that had 100+ years of serious grime on it. I took a moist tissue and cleaned it up and it looked like a completely different image.
Rob M.
Clipped cabinet card:
