Duplicity on many levels, a lesson to share

[edjs]

So, I recently bought a Carl Lundgren Chicago with paper addition. I decided to buy it and try soaking, and see what I ended up with. I will start with a caveat regarding all this:

1. I have soaked a couple cards in the past with great results
2. I document the process, keeping before and after scans, and store the scans in a file marked "cards I have soaked," so that I always know which cards I have soaked, that way I can always declare the soaking if I ever decide to sell those cards
3. I have never sold a card I soaked yet, and don't intend to, but you never know what may happen in the future
4. I am not naming names, I do not list my full name in my ID here due to the job I do, and do not want someone to Google my name and find it here, so per the rules, I am not making a statement against any individual, I am just sharing my story as a lesson learned

I started soaking the card, by using a wet Q-tip, and slowly removing paper with tweezers. I could soon see that underneath the paper, there was a Piedmont 350 back, and I was stoked! I have been slowly working on the paper removal since the first weekend of this month. Today, I got it out and started working on it again, and much to my dismay, the corner of the card started to come up! I thought, "Huh?" Well, I have realized that this is the deal with this card:

Someone re-backed this card with a Piedmont 350 back. Worse than that, and this is just a guess, is that the person that re-backed it sold it, and someone that bought it realized it was re-backed. Then, instead of just sucking up that they got taken, they glued it to more paper, to disguise the re-backing of the card, and then passed it on as a "paper addition." It was impossible to tell the re-backing, because of the paper addition! So, I am just letting you all know my story, so that you all can be aware of this and watch out before you buy a card that would be a good candidate for soaking. I will just keep the card as a skinned Lundgren, and continue removal of the back carefully until I am down to the original card. I hope I told this story and stayed within the rules of not having to post my name. I have told Leon about myself and why I don't post my name, and I have always tried to keep my posts within those rules. Some of you do know my name, from PMs, e-mails, purchases, and the like, and that is okay, because those are all private, and don't come out on Google. I really do have a good reason to remain private, but I felt you guys really needed to see this so that you would avoid being duped like I was.