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Posted By: Hal Lewis

Peter:

To me, the difference is that nothing unnatural is being added to the card.

There is some degree of WATER vapor in the air that touches our cards every minute of every day.

If a card gets wet and then dries completely... the card is biologically the exact same card that it was before it got wet.

ASSUMING... that we are talking about these types of cards that are NOT "messed up" by getting wet.


I buy only GRADED cards... so I am NOT going to be doing any such soaking myself.

BUT... if soaking a card in pure water is something that even the grading companies cannot detect...

then I assume that some of my old graded cards may very well have been soaked.

That doesn't bother me NEAR AS MUCH as those stupid "Cy" Young cards that don't even picture Cy Young!