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Posted By: Greg

Wow, what an interesting thread.

Having preserved or "restored" numerous antique, one of a kind, lithographs over the years through paper conservators, (all of which were very expensive to do I might ad) I'm amazed at how much controversy a little water can stir up.

I've always wondered.... purely from the point of view from how we should preserve 90 year old paper... is sticking a beautiful little antique piece of paper between two slices of cheap plastic and throwing a graded sticker on them "altering" these cards? Seems to me this practice is much more blatant a visual alteration than a little bit of water.

Maybe if grades and the prices that are placed on them weren't so important to the slightest extremes none of this would matter, but, then again, I'm pretty new to cards, having more of history and background in emphera. Rare to me means there are only one or two known to exist, not 10 or 12 out of 600 that have a little sharper corner than the rest.

I'm sure I'm gonna take flak for that comment...oh well.

greg