Posted By:
E, DanielBarry,
I'm not interested so much in whether a paper conservator can successfully remove a card from a scrapbook, but more what their opinion is on submerging/soaking a card in water and drying it in ways mentioned in this thread.
Those are two different things in my expectation. I would fully believe that he/she has specialist tools, chemicals, and proffessional knowledge that he would apply when undertaking the task. I actually don't believe he would ho hum the job if paid for such a removal, but would do all the necessary fact finding to understand what he was working with and apply the correct measures.
I am far more interested in what a conservator would think of Joe Shmo taking his 75+ year old cards and tossing them in the bath tub, and drying them with books and absorbent materials, and whether a process like that would have a longer term effect than might be initially realized.
Kind regards
Daniel