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    • Created on Dec 14, 2010 at 11:33 AM
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    I always sell 'as is' with defects noted in the description, and very rarely sell badly-damaged cards at all
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    I always sell 'as is' with defects noted in the description, and very rarely sell badly-damaged cards at all
    • Created on Dec 14, 2010 at 3:57 PM
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    Likewise.
    Any torn cards will only get listed if the image is rare and then at a very greatly reduced price, i.e £1 for a card that I would ask £10+ for if it was in very good or excellent condition.
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    • Created on Dec 18, 2010 at 12:55 PM
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    Just to expand further on real photo postcards (likewise old photos): photo paper is generally a single-layer stock with high china clay content, overlaid with a bromide photo-sensitive coating. Photographs are glazed by washing in demineralized (or specially-treated) water then placing face down on a heated polished metal surface and held in place with pressure from a canvas webbing

    Commercial printers use a continuous feed version of this, rather like an industrial bread toaster

    If you can replicate this then it may - just - be possible to wash and re-glaze damaged or stained RP postcards, but I don't think the risk is worth it, unless you have a ready supply of low-grade cards to practice on, and even then there is no guarantee that what works on one card will work on the next

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