T206 experiment part 1

[cliftons8]

Do you think getting drunk will change the result?

[Kenny Cole]

How is one to know unless he engages in the experiment? Sometimes you have to take a hit in order to advance the cause of science.

[steve B]

No, no hits. Just alcohol.

[bbcard1]

I usually go with alcohol after pressure....

[T206Collector]

I would agree that water doesn't make T206s bleed. But I've seen some pretty crazy blurring of T206 fronts and backs caused by exposure to chemicals of some kind.

[steve B]

I wasn't expecting anything from dampness, it was just a bonus element.

The main point was the pressure. I have seen black inks transfer from pressure over 100 years after printing. Black T206 backs seem to transfer more readily than others, with red being the second most common. So since I wanted to see if it would transfer after 100 years I figured the beater nobody wanted to trade for was a good experiment. I'll probably look for a beater tolstoi or old mill to try, and pick up a couple metal plates so the cards are less wrecked by the experiment. Other good candidates would be cards with back damage and/or creases from being removed from a scrapbook. Using those would eliminate the dirt from the equation.

While it was a serious experiment I'm happy we could have some fun with my poor phrasing of the alcohol element of the next step.

Steve B

[T206Collector]

A few things to consider:

1) I've soaked dozens of T206 cards in water and pressed them for days. Never had a wet sheet transfer.

2) I've purchased T206s that were actually permanently wet with some kind of disgusting chemical from a century on the floor of a basement. Those cards literally had blurred factory info on the back.

Any future experiment should be done with isoproyl, or peroxide, or bleach, etc.

Ever use fingernail polish remover on the front of a Topps card from the 1980s? It takes all the paint off the front, leaving behind an entirely blank front. I've never had the guts to do that to a T206 card.

Here's the before....



Here's the Chris Ford RARE T206 VARIATION!!