About soaking cards

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Posted By: E, Daniel

Everyone else is right and I am wrong. Nice preface I'm hoping everyone agrees!
I just have one thing I would love to do, and that is make contact with a couple of the foremost paper conservators to ask their opinion on soaking card (as opposed to stamps, or other paper forms). Find out if my ramblings about higher water retention and any effects long term on the paper make sense, or are merely ramblings.
Anyone have recommendations of people of real note in that industry...I know a couple of excellent people - but not major names or those whose word and work carries prestige in the area. I would love to just shoot them off a quick email asking the simple question:

What's your opinion on the effects long term to a piece of card used for printing advertising (say between the years 1880 - 1945), of soaking, and then drying that card between blotting paper (feel free anyone to tell me other forms of drying material you would prefer inserted here) and being pressed between some heavy books for a few days to complete the drying process......

Would anyone else be interested in just the science and knowledge behind the practice, or is it just me?


Daniel