Small Cracker Jack find - my first

[Yastrzemski Sports]

Originally Posted by pokerplyr80

Congrats on the find.

It's interesting to note that on the same board members are talking about cards that have been presumably soaked, cleaned up, and bumped a couple of grades being the biggest scandal in our hobby's history. And in this threads others are giving advice on how to do it.

It depends on whether they consider it restoration or conservation.

[brianp-beme]

A decent percent of vintage cards would still be in scrapbooks without someone soaking them out at some point. A very common practice in play for decades in the hobby that, in the vast majority of the cases, was not meant to deceive...how else are you going to see the back side?

A card was more likely to keep its fresh new look if it was stored in a scrapbook compared to other storage options. I imagine a large chunk of the legitimate top condition vintage cards had a good soak to separate them from scrapbook paper...and I see nothing wrong with it.

Brian