A question for card soaker

[smotan_02]

I think hot water is the way to go with tickets. Early tickets are often constructed like bank notes by pressing multiple sheets together. If they soak too long, then the ticket themselves will start to separate. Baseball tickets may be a little different, since the early once weren't that intricate or ornate (as compared to college football tickets). Also, these tickets were not colored like baseball cards.

I was lucky enough to work with Jeff on his scrapbook find and the hot water worked MUCH better than the room temp water and none of the color ran. Im going to pass along the thanks to board member KJJAVIC for the soaking lessons.

One thing for sure is to test it out on something else on the sheet first. If all you have is the tickets with paper on the back, then test it on the less condition ticket first.

[smotan_02]

I should clarify that KJJAVIC's advice to me was warm water.

I used warm water when I soak out tickets with amazing results. I even soaked out a christmas card with writing on the back (where the glue was). It soaked out just fine and the writing was still completely legible. It was originally sent to the scrapbook owner in 1942 after they attended a Yale football game together. I mailed the card and the Yale ticket stub to the original writer's son without visible evidence it was ever glued into a scrapbook.

Jeff and I used hot water with just as nice results.