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T206CollectorI have soaked plenty of T206 cards in water to remove scrapbook paper from the fronts and backs of my T206 cards. I have had at least two of these submitted to SGC, and each time they come back graded, and fairly well. I got a SGC 70/5.5 on one of them that originally had about 75% of its reverse covered in scrap paper. It came off very easily in water and now is one of my best looking T206 cards.
HOWEVER, I have also had two cards, which I did not soak, be rejected for soaking. And each time (I resubmitted them once) the SGC explanation was something like "Soaked/Cleaned". So, if they couldn't grade your card because it was soaked, I think they would have said so. And I think, based on a review of the cards themselves and what people on this board have previously told me, those two cards were chemically soaked to remove tobacco staining from Polar Bear cards, which are notoriously tobacco stained. Someone indicated that bleach may have been used. I don't know, but I do know that the backs of the Polar Bear cards have a strange blue fluorescence that I have not seen in any of the other T206 cards I own. SGC was definitely picking up on that. But, to my knowledge, they cannot generally determine if a T206 card was soaked in water, or if they can, it doesn't prohibit them from grading it.