Soaking cards, redux

[John V]

Bill,
Have you soaked the Goose?

[birdman42]

John,

I haven't taken Goose swimming yet. I have heard from Jeff (post above) who won a couple other lots from the same scrapbook. He tried soaking them for more than a day. He said the paper did eventually come off the backs just fine, but the fronts were ruined. That was my concern--what would happen to the glossy fronts on these V61s?

I haven't checked in with the seller yet. He said that he had steamed one off successfully and a TPG gave it a 3. If it was just a layer of paper on the back, rather than two cards stuck to the same sheet back-to-back, that would make a difference, I think.

I've had good experiences with cards that were just lithos, but now I'm not comfortable at all soaking these. I may just end up with a Siamese twin card in my collection. (Apologies to all my Thai friends.)

So to repeat my original question:

Has anyone had any experience soaking cards with glossy fronts? M101-4/5, V61, etc. The one person I've heard from says ix-nay on the oaking-say.

Here are some responses that won't be helpful. (Sorry if this comes across as snarky, but these have all been hashed out many times before.)

What!? How do you soak cards?
I'd never soak cards. It's an alteration.
I've soaked plenty of T206s, etc. with nary a problem.

Bill

[frankbmd]

I just posted this on the screw down thread, but thought it should be posted here as well.

I have a number of flat lucite screw down holders.

For display and storage over tightening the screws can be a problem.

If you're a card "soaker" there is no better way to dry the cards than between paper towels in a flat screw down holder. Changing the paper once or twice, I can get a card dry in several hours rather than several days using this technique without the need for weight.

[FrankWakefield]

My recollection is that I soaked a V61 and it came out just fine. I did not soak it for 3 days... more like a few hours.

Again, I'd start with the least/worst of them, do that one for a short period of time, and see what you think. I doubt that you soak any of them, I figure you'd have already done it if you were going to do it. I'd not soak one for a long time, I think that a long soak might degrade the front some.