Old Judge/Tobacco Card Scrapbook

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Posted By: DGS 

I recently purchased a scrapbook with 500+ 19th century tobacco cards and other tobacco art/advertising. The book itself is in pretty bad shape, but most of the cards are in great shape. There are about 100 baseball cards in the scarpbook and about 75 of those are Old Judge cards.

Is it best to have the cards removed or keep them on the pages? The first two pages have 35 Old Judge cards on each. They are all pretty well glued. It looks like when they were added to the scrapbook the whole page was glued then the cards attached, so they are glued edge to edge. Is there an easy way to remove them without damaging the cards or is there a company out there somewhere that does this kind of thing?

I've collected modern cards for the last 15 years, but I am very new to this vintage stuff. Any information would help.

Thanks,
DGS