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Posted By: Greg Theberge

As you know, it's amazing what these restorers can do, Mark. We've used a company in Chicago a couple of times (the name escapes me at the moment). We've restored a few 1880-1910 lithographs over the years and it has definitely stabilized the pieces. Of course, it aint cheap...by any means.

A fellow Sox collector friend of mine has had some photos restored in order to stabilize cracks or folds. In my opinion, this is not done to deceive anyone, but done to preserve the piece (for some reason, we're hung up sometimes on "grades" or conditions - mostly from what I can determine by the ugly dollar).

Of course, if a piece is stable just as it is, leave it alone. I don't think anything should be refinished or repainted to improve appearance.

Greg