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Posted By: Hankron

The black paper of old photo albums is usually soft and the photos were often glued via a few dabs of glue. This means that sometimes most of the black paper can carefully be pealed away without much trouble. Water tricks will help on the tougher spots.

Also, it in't neccesary to remove all the black paper, glue or other probelems on the back. A few minor glue spots or even a small portion of leftover black paper will have little to no effect on the value. In other words, there isn't a requirement that a photo be clean as a whistle, and I've sold some expensive photos that had a few black paper dots on the back.