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ComposerMike
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| Wednesday, September 2, 2020 3:04 PM | |
I picked up a partial 1985 Topps baseball set years ago, and have kept it in an 800-count box since. The cards were a bit curved (moreso than other sets stored the same way) and I flipped half of them so the pressure from the box might teach them to go the other way.
Has this worked for any of you or is there a better way (if at all) to bend a hefty amount back to being straight?
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vrooomed
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| Wednesday, September 2, 2020 3:20 PM | |
I was told by the card shop owner back in 1980 that the slight curl to a card indicates it has been kept in ideal conditions and is natural. The "upper deck" card stock does not do this. I have never worried about the curve.
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Billy Kingsley
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ComposerMike
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| Wednesday, September 2, 2020 4:26 PM | |
Interesting, for all my other hand-collated sets from the 80s are seriously straight.
I won't start up the steamroller and leave the 85s as is then.
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Please visit my YouTube channel 'The Vintage Composer' for more info on sports card collecting, sports history, trivia, and more! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPoAYGOXYlY9OBIZPKqsCgA/videos
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Billy Kingsley
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ToppsrBest
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| Wednesday, September 2, 2020 4:53 PM | |
Glad to hear this as I have this issue with Cards. I had read before that curve does not affect the condition the Card is deemed to be in. Glad to know it represents proper storage.
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switzr1
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| Wednesday, September 2, 2020 5:54 PM | |
Mine seem to be seasonal. They lay flatter in summer than winter. Maybe I could find some way to predict the weather with cards and get rich??
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I'm going to reevaluate how I collect after the new year. It's just getting way too expensive for the new stuff. Sometimes I just want to buy a pack, not a whole box or even blaster.
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ComposerMike
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| Wednesday, September 2, 2020 6:34 PM | |
Yes Billy, high humidity is bad for cards and baseballs. Learned that the hard way through scientific experiments I didn't even know I was conducting!
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Please visit my YouTube channel 'The Vintage Composer' for more info on sports card collecting, sports history, trivia, and more! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPoAYGOXYlY9OBIZPKqsCgA/videos
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Billy Kingsley
Posts: 7,487
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| Wednesday, September 2, 2020 11:24 PM | |
That sounds like an unpleasant experience! I had a large portion of my duplicate stash stored in my unheated storage unit from 2003/04 until 2016 or 2017. I'm a little leery about what I'm going to find when I go through them fully. It appears from preliminary exploration that the majority are fine...I even found a couple of upgrades already. The ones that were loose, they are all damaged and stuck together, but the ones that were stacked neatly seem to be fine. I won't know for sure until I finish scanning everything though, so we're looking at years before I find out for sure.
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VERY slow trading due to health problems. Not transferrable so safe to trade with, just moving is painful and can't always access the cards. Cardboard History My COMC New Collection Website: Cardboard History Gallery (Still under construction) Tips on how to make your scans look like the card does in hand (No more washed out, fuzzy scans!):
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