Laminated! Noooooo!

[JustinD]

It's making me quite happy that there are some of you enjoying these and they are not lost to time due to the lamination.

For myself, it's just falling in the realm of a sticker auto on a card and the inability to touch the same item as the signer makes it fall out of my wheelhouse. I don't like that I can't touch the history forever incased in the laminate.

Love the feedback!

[isiahfan]

Originally Posted by JustinD

It's making me quite happy that there are some of you enjoying these and they are not lost to time due to the lamination.

For myself, it's just falling in the realm of a sticker auto on a card and the inability to touch the same item as the signer makes it fall out of my wheelhouse. I don't like that I can't touch the history forever incased in the laminate.

Love the feedback!

I was just about to say this....As an avid 68/84 Tigers and 89/90 Pistons auto collector...it drives me nuts when I see a JSA or PSA sticker adhered to a card...

no idea why anyone would do this...on any original item...

that being said if I needed something for a collection that I wasn't sure I would see again I would grab it...and then replace it if an unaltered one came my way...I have foreign stickers in my PC for Isiah that there are no known unstuck versions...so I get the one attached to the album and wait until I see an unstuck version...doubt I ill though.

for common items like cards for a modern set and such..I am also against fillers and placeholders..buy one that fits your needs...don't mess with upgrading commonly had items...but that's just me

[JollyElm]

If that was in my collecting wheelhouse, I woulda done grabbed it quick, because that would be epically cool to have, lamination or not.

[Snapolit1]

No chance lamination can be undone somehow?

[Michael B]

Originally Posted by Snapolit1

No chance lamination can be undone somehow?

No, laminating is done with heat. The plastic melts and impregnates the paper.

[JollyElm]

Originally Posted by Michael B

No, laminating is done with heat. The plastic melts and impregnates the paper.

Sounds like they need to develop a 'Plan B One-Step for Lamination' pill.

[bmattioli]

People use the OCD term within the collecting universe often but it's a terrible disease..

[bbcard1]

Originally Posted by Snapolit1

No chance lamination can be undone somehow?

Theoretically if you pray hard enough.

[brianp-beme]

I have never been laminated, but have heard many horror stories from cards who have been. Plastic impregnating paper definitely seems like an unpleasant experience that should be avoided, and the resulting 'offspring' is likely to be shunned for the rest of his/her existence.

Brian

[Michael B]

Originally Posted by brianp-beme

I have never been laminated, but have heard many horror stories from cards who have been. Plastic impregnating paper definitely seems like an unpleasant experience that should be avoided, and the resulting 'offspring' is likely to be shunned for the rest of his/her existence.

Brian

Actually, impregnated paper produces reams of offspring!!!!!

[Dead-Ball-Hitter]

Originally Posted by JustinD

It's making me quite happy that there are some of you enjoying these and they are not lost to time due to the lamination.

For myself, it's just falling in the realm of a sticker auto on a card and the inability to touch the same item as the signer makes it fall out of my wheelhouse. I don't like that I can't touch the history forever incased in the laminate.

Love the feedback!

Justin I have a couple of laminated items, one that I personally did in the late 1980's! My biggest concern is: was the lamination well done? Is it pealing, has it yellowed, are there air bubbles?

One can still confirm the authenticity of a document in most cases and as long as it presents well, I'm happy. Of course, the value takes a hit, and rightly so. But for something that was done well, I don't mind at all.

[Luke]

Wouldn't bother me personally.

[brianp-beme]

Here is my 1948 Bowman of Ralph Kiner, laminated version. Over the years I have learned to accept it as being no different from any of my other, non-laminated, cardboard children.

Brian