Opinions on Soaking/Pressing

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Posted By: Al Crisafulli

Do you guys try and make your cards look more presentable before sending them in for grading? Or do you just toss them into a card saver and ship them off?

Do you press a frayed corner back into the card so that it's not flipped up in the slab, or do you leave them frayed?

Do you wipe fingerprints off the card, or do you leave them there?

Would you flick a little goober off the face of the card with a fingernail, or do you leave the goober?

Maybe wipe off a small patch of glue or tobacco, or let it remain on the card?

Do you blow dust off the card, or leave it dusty?

If the card has a little fuzz along an edge, do you try and press it back into the edge, so that it's a little less noticeable, or do you leave it?



Last year I bought a small lot of T206s, really cheap. They all had scrapbook paper on the backs. One of them had a Tolstoi back - my first. I was bummed that I couldn't see the entire Tolstoi ad, because of the paper. I noticed that the scrapbook paper had flipped up in one corner, so I grabbed it with my finger, and tried lifting it up a little more. Boom - the scrapbook paper came right off the card, with almost no effort at all, revealing a beautiful Tolstoi ad.

Should I have glued the scrapbook paper back onto the card?

-Al