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Originally Posted by Exhibitman
We are the only paper-based collectible hobby that does not conserve items. This is a 200 year old print:
This is a 100 year old print:
The 200 year old cotton-rag print has a better chance of making 300 than the 100 year old wood pulp print has to make 200. I am not against properly performed efforts to conserve the paper. More and more of our cardboard is going to rot away due to acid from the wood pulp paper. The chemical reaction can be halted and some of the damage reversed with proper conservation techniques. If we do nothing we allow the history of the hobby to rot away. |
This is not what Evan Mathis and the rest of the parasites are doing though.
You want standards of conservation? Then have a governing body establish them and hold people to those standards. I'm 100% okay with a standardized fair playing field but these folks are just scunbags trying to take advantage. Complete transparency on the label, "was graded a 2 in 1998, has since been "restored" by knucklehead #1 in 2005, knucklehead #2 in 2023, and here's your product. What'll you give me for it?
I've said it before, the most valuable T and E cards should be the ones with fat borders that show 100+ years of wear on them.