T206 Find - Removal from photo album

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Hi everyone - long time!

I'm talking to a gentleman who inherited some T206 that belonged to his great grandfather.

Quick summary:

• 176 total cards
• 28 hof (1 of each Matty and WaJo portraits are the top cards)
• Mostly commons otherwise
• 2 slight miscut / partial double-name (Street Catching, Elberfeld Fielding - not enough detail to see what the second name is)

I haven't seen them in person yet, and the pictures that he sent weren't the greatest quality (sample attached). It is clear that they were handled at least a little bit before being placed into these self-adhesive scrapbook / photo pages. Some appear to have creases and corner wear.

He's afraid to remove them from these pages, so I'm not sure what the backs are, but he did remove one card (SC350 - attached), so there's a chance his grandfather was a Sweet Caporal smoker. Either way it will be exciting to hopefully see what the rest are.

That one example looks fairly clean on the back, so maybe most/all of the cards are okay. Does anyone have experience removing cards from these types of storage pages, and if so do they usually separate cleanly?

I am trying to help him assess the value so that I can make a fair offer.

I will let you know more if/when I can get a better look at the cards.

Thank you,
-Trae

[egbeachley]

Awesome to see new cards still pop up from time to time.

The value is going to be tough. Big difference between backs coming out nice like the one example which may have been selected because it was coming off anyway, and having the rest damaged.

Good luck!

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

I would experiment with a slow lift and a hair dryer on high aimed under the lifted edge.

[sb1]

DO NOT try to take them out by peeling them off...they might be pasted in and pop off or they might pull paper and/or crease. They need to be soaked page by page and properly dried in between book pages(old phone books work great with additional weight on top) and rotated to new dry pages as they dry to prevent warping.

Based on the example they might come out fine, if they have dark brown horse glue, you can forget it.

[t206kid]

What Scott said ^^

[t206kid]

I’ve soaked many cards. This will be a big project. And you will have to cut up the pages and soak one by one. I’ve also never had any luck with the horse glue