Sunlight Good for Cards?

[GregMitch34]

Ever hear anything like this? A friend says he occasionally puts a graded tobacco or caramel card--which is a little muddy with age--in direct sunlight for a few hours or more, which lightens it up just a little. Good idea or nuts?

[baseballart]

Nuts

[bbcard1]

if you also water them, it can make them grow. I do this to trimmed cards all the time. Wait. I mean plants.

[drc]

It might lighten them up in that it fades away the ink.

Litho cards fade in sunlight, though, luckily, slowly. Not a recommended practice.

[FrankWakefield]

What David said...


Sunlight is good for cards if you want to fade them. Same with fluorescent lighting. Those slabbed cards displayed in dens and rec rooms will gradually fade, unless someone's put in special lighting or filter tubes over the fluorescent bulbs.

[Bilko G]

this is the craziest thing ive ever heard. Direct sunlight is bad for any type of collectible.

[SetBuilder]

I keep mine in a dark cigar humidor. Helps kill the mold.

[DaveW]

Originally Posted by Bilko G

this is the craziest thing ive ever heard. Direct sunlight is bad for any type of collectible.

Except for collectible cactus

[drc]

I was going to joke that you should microwave your cards to kill mold, but feared someone was thinking I was being serious.

[Anthony S.]

If the player depicted on the card was Vitamin D deficient, it could help.

[kmac32]

Stick them in a tanning bed. We all look better with skin cancer!

[Exhibitman]

Dumb as a bag of rocks.

[T206DK]

LOL, continued exposure to even indirect sunlight will degrade prewar cards.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

Dumb as a bag of rocks.

Not if they were Pet Rocks and you "invented" them.

Direct sunlight = Yikes....run away!!!

[brianp-beme]

Sunlight on cards = bad. All raw cards should be buried in moist soil in the backyard for long term storage. If no backyard, a planter box will do in a pinch.

Brian

[GregMitch34]

Thanks for replies, a lot of funny stuff there. My friend still swears that it helped a couple of cards that had gotten really dark with age--"loss of color" actually a good thing, in moderation, in those cases. I have not seen the cards so cannot comment.

Please stop this madness!

This could be the first Urban myth of Net54. "I set my cards in direct sunlight for a couple hours a day and the image ENHANCED." You're not processing film.

[frankbmd]

Originally Posted by kmac32

Stick them in a tanning bed. We all look better with skin cancer!

If you're 100, you wont live long enough to get it

[steve B]

Originally Posted by GregMitch34

Thanks for replies, a lot of funny stuff there. My friend still swears that it helped a couple of cards that had gotten really dark with age--"loss of color" actually a good thing, in moderation, in those cases. I have not seen the cards so cannot comment.

I can't think of more than a couple sets that would get dark with age. And sunlight wouldn't make any of those better since they're all developing photo type stuff.

I do know that my eyes have become less effective in the dark with age, and that sunlight does help that

Steve B

Who's thinking he should have opened a tanning salon......

[MikeGarcia]

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[birdman42]

Originally Posted by Anthony S.

If the player depicted on the card was Vitamin D deficient, it could help.

That would be this guy, right?

[MikeGarcia]

you are beri beri funny....