Why Card Care Should Be Best Practice, Not Controversial with Kurt’s Card Care

What this episode is about

Kurt’s Card Care emphasizes the importance of properly cleaning and maintaining vintage cards to preserve their value and appearance, highlighting the often surprising techniques used, such as soaking cards to remove dirt and wrinkles. The discussion reflects a passion for card preservation within the hobby, urging collectors to adopt best practices that enhance the longevity and aesthetics of their treasures.

Key takeaways

• Soaking a 1952 Mickey Mantle card? That's a bold strategy—proving that even treasures need a bath.
• In a digital age, the demand for tangible card care speaks volumes about our nostalgia for collectibles.
• Curts Card Care emerged from necessity, proving that sometimes the best ideas come from a collector's desperation.
• You aren’t just cleaning cards; you’re reviving memories—those smudges hold stories that need to be polished.
• Who knew that a hobby could blend art and science? Card care is the new frontier for creative mechanics!

Who speaks in this episode?

• Ryan Alford (Host) · 15 min speaking
• Kurt (Guest) · 10 min speaking

What is discussed, and when

1. 0:00 – 5:00: Curts Card Care, Ryan Alford, Collector Nation, Pokemon
2. 5:00 – 10:00: Ryan Alford, Pokemon, Becket
3. 10:00 – 15:00: Pokemon
4. 15:00 – 20:00: Mickey Mantle
5. 20:00 – 24:21: Instagram, Ryan Alford, Collector Nation, Pokemon

Notable quotes from "Why Card Care Should Be Best Practice, Not Controversial with Kurt’s Card Care"

• Away, which goes back to one of your earlier questions. This stuff freaks people out because they never seen somebody soak a 1952 Mickey Manel until they met me. I kind of got a little bit of a twitch you saying soak.

  about Mickey Mantle · at 0:16

• At like a product or a card or something one day and then the next day I'm talking to them. This is one of my favorite products in the hobby. I'm just go ahead and say that.…

  about Curts Card Care · at 1:10

• In trying to like meet other adults through like kids sports, they'll ask me what I do and I'm Well, I make some great products to teach people how to take care of their…

  about Pokemon · at 3:59

• I feel like I got a good eye. I know what a corner dent I know. I knew in my mind, dude, I sent all these cards in to get graded at Becket. I got like fives and sixes on all…

  about Becket · at 8:14

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

• Ryan Alford — Person · Host · 5 mentions · first at 0:30
  Host of Collector Nation who interviews Kurt, shares his own collecting background, and expresses strong endorsement and retail interest in carrying Kurt’s products.
  Welcome to the Collector Nation podcast.
• Mickey Mantle — Person · Referenced athlete (example subject of vintage card) · 2 mentions · first at 0:20
  Mentioned as the iconic example of a high-stakes vintage card (1952 Mantle) used to illustrate Kurt’s soaking/cleaning approach and why it shocks collectors.

Companies & orgs

• Collector Nation — Company · Host platform · 4 mentions · first at 0:30
  The podcast platform where the discussion about card care and collecting takes place.
  What's up, guys? Welcome to Collector Nation here on the Collector Nation Network. there's no doubt that everyone knows at this point my affinity for the hobby and getting back into it.
• Instagram — Company · Social media platform · 4 mentions · first at 3:34
  Mentioned as a platform where Kurt promotes his card care products and interacts with customers.
  Years and years ago. And, I just I took a chance probably about 5 and a half years ago, and I'm I'll make an Instagram page, see what people have to say about it. And the…
• Becket — Company · Referenced service · 1 mention · first at 8:17
  Mentioned as a grading service for collectible cards, providing context for the importance of card condition.

Products & tech

• Curts Card Care — Product · Business focus · 2 mentions · first at 1:15
  Primary product discussed in the episode, focusing on card care and restoration techniques.

Concepts & topics

• Pokemon — Concept · Collectible category · 4 mentions · first at 4:04
  Mentioned as one of the types of collectible cards that can be cared for using Kurt's products.

Full transcript with timestamps

0:00 stuff that's like a hundred years old could be just filthy dirty and you can clean these cards so much. Like this is where I'll get the most like like thing, right? Like where I'll soak a card and get all the wrinkles and dirt to come out of it and then teach people how to dry them. And at first it blows people away, which goes back to one of your earlier questions. This stuff freaks people out because they never seen somebody soak a 1952 Mickey Manel until they met me. You know,

0:24 I kind of got a little bit of a twitch you saying soak. Oh, dude. Welcome to the Collector Nation podcast. Here on the Collector Nation Network, whether you're chasing grails or calling bluffs, we take you inside the hobby. Here's your host, Ryan Alford. What's up, guys? Welcome to Collector Nation here on the Collector Nation Network. You know, there's no doubt that everyone knows at this point my affinity for the hobby and getting back into it. And part of what I was talking about with my guest today before the episode got started was, hey, I get to like look at like a product or a card or something one day and then the next day I'm talking to them. This is one of my favorite products in the hobby. I'm just go ahead and say that. And that's unpaid, unscripted. That just is the truth. And it is Curts Card Care. And it is. It smells really good. It's Kurt Cologne. These are treasures. We got to

1:30 take care of this stuff, man. Like, why don't you want it to look better? When I got back into the hobby, I started looking around for a few different things because it been I I really put it on the shelf. Like, okay, got into B I was a basketball player year round in high school and middle school and put the the cards up and they didn't come back out till my kids got into it. So, I was like 25 years on the shelf. When I came back into it, I was looking for a few things. I was like, number one, okay, there's got to be apps now.

1:58 There's got to be apps, right? We got to have technology to manage our collections, all that. I was right. Okay. All right. We got new looking cards. We got that. All right. All right. There's got to be a better way to to keep up with them, to, you know, keep them to clean them or to like there's got to be something. And it was like it took me a year to find you because I didn't really have time. I was doing it passively and then finally like I tripped over it and I was like, "Oh yeah, this is what makes sense. We've got to take care of these car. How like sometimes you got just small, it's not even a blemish. It's just like a smudge like your fing your grimy fingerprints.

2:32 How can we do this and not hurt the card? And here you are. I hear you, man. That's the See, I'm I'm I'm the I feel like I have the that that same thought ever since I was a kid, you know? I'm like they they are our little pieces of treasure, right? So like since I that was that was as much as little treasure as I got, I just knew that I always had to take good care of them. And I always looked for Ryan to be a c a customer of a company like mine because I figured it exists,

2:58 you know? I figured there's got to be a way to get common things off of our little collectibles, our little treasures. And I just never found anything that was like satisfactory. And then like being like a person that's always I come from a family that embraced art, that embraced um a lot of hands-on stuff and being creative and stuff like that. And um if we didn't have a tool for something, we'd figure it out, you know. And that's really, you know, just I couldn't I couldn't find a Curts card care that had all the the issues that I wanted to work on. So, man, I just started piecing it together years and years ago. And, you know, I just I took a chance uh probably about 5 and a half years ago, and I'm like, I'll make an Instagram page, see what people have to say about it. And the market, you know, really spoke for itself. And that turns out that everybody was waiting for something that was, you

3:43 know, practical and easy and reliable to like kind of add a whole new layer of, you know, like collecting.

3:49 Did Kurt have a laboratory at his house? Like what was the process for developing this product?

3:55 Yeah, dude. That's pretty much right. That's exactly That's exactly it. Even in trying to like meet other adults through like kids sports, they'll ask me what I do and I'm like, "Well, I make some great products to teach people how to take care of their Pokemon cards and baseball cards." Like it's kind of hard to even explain, right? But um where it all started really, Ryan, was just me being a particular person and a collector my whole life. And I've always um I I give a lot of credit to my mother. My mom is an amazing artist, but my dad was a crazy mechanic and he was very good with science. And my mom was super artistic. So like just in the household I grew up in, it was like you fix up with art or science. And and really for sure enough, dude, the things I've loved since I was a little kid, like playing guitars, listening to music, collecting cards are really things that I just really kind of stayed

4:46 with professionally through my whole life. But like when it came to the card care stuff, I started My family owned a dealership. Okay. So like when you work in a body shop growing up,

4:59 I know where this is going. Yes. I'm around really creative, awesome people. My father was a fabricator. um great painter, like people that could do amazing stuff like Detroit mechanics is where I'm from. Okay. So like guys that were real good with their hands and then like um so when it came to working in the body shop and we did car not card shows but car shows like every weekend we'd compete and also we would race. So like I had a really fun kind of weekends growing up. So one of my de my jobs was to detail everything, keep everything super tight and super clean. So that that didn't really the apple didn't fall far from the tree. And so then, you know, being I always like how stuff is made and like the essence of how stuff's all put together. Like I was watching people there were some people that cleaned cards or tried to improve them.

5:48 I wasn't like the only person ever thought of this, but it was usually with like other

5:52 Windex. Yeah. Find the wrong the wrong blend. Ajax. Yeah. You know how there's salsa that's like mild and then there's salsa that will like put you in the hospital. That's kind of like the same thing like metaphorically speaking as like chemicals. You know what I mean? So like there is some really easy, responsible, great ways to take care of paper and plastic, but it's usually not achieved through stuff that's under your sink or on the the shelf in your garage. So that's where I really stepped up and was like, I'm going to make stuff cuz it doesn't exist. And um I'm a stubborn mule, Ryan. like I will do something over I will fail 1,000 times in a row um just to get it right, dude. I'm just and that can be a strength and a an annoyance for those around me. But um when it comes to the the the building and testing and everything, yes, that's uh that's how I started. Now I don't have to like have a kitchen laboratory

6:45 anymore. Right out back, we have a beautiful state-of-the-art laboratory and facility where now I have my own professional lab. And this is where we develop and manufacture all of our products. I'll say this, you know, once I finally got the product and was using it about four months ago, I went down the the the rabbit hole and watched all the videos. Uh not all maybe not everyone, but like all the ones that mattered for what I was trying to do. Do you think the average person would be surprised or disappointed with how, you know, far gone a card could kind of be versus what a little bit of just restoration and cleanup can bring back?

7:22 I it seemed to me like it was pretty magic. Thanks, man. I think that it's pretty and you're a great person to speak on that, Ryan, cuz you and I didn't even know each other until today until you unscripted and it's unlike uh performed. I'm just a fan,

7:38 right? Thank you, man. Because it's like, you know, it's like my my sister-in-law is a owns a great bakery and naturally when she brings me cookies, they're freaking amazing because she made them, you know, but you don't even know about my cookies. You just got them use them, you know? So, I think that most collectors would be surprised because one of my initial nudges to get into this, Ryan, and chase it down was I was uh I'm 44 now. I was 20, probably 24. I um put all my 1986 Fleer stickers and basketball cards together.

8:12 I feel like I'm an artistic person, man. I feel like I got a good eye. I know what a corner dent I know. I knew in my mind, dude, I sent all these cards in to get graded at Becket. I got like fives and sixes on all these. I was like crushed. I felt like I felt like like we're talking about card grading. Like, come on, get a get real. But I was so disappointed in myself. I was like, dude, what is this? Am I mad at them or am I mad at myself? What is going on here? That's when I started really going to card shows on the weekend and and going up and talking to guys had nines and tens. I'm like, do you do anything to this? How do you do this? What is this? you know, and I started collecting data.

8:46 Yeah. So then anyways, since I was so surprised about how low a card can like score or how condition sensitive they were, I had a lot to learn. So then when back to your question, if somebody gets some card care stuff and they have cards that are 20 years old, even if they're kept in their binders, you got 20 years worth of spring, fall, summer, winter, you know, all kinds of different atmospheres and stuff going on. You'd be guys would be surprised. Like I I bet Ryan when you did like did you do sports cards or Pokemon cards? Like what were the ones that you

9:15 sports cards? I had unfortunately prime junk wax era 87 to 92. Good. Good stuff that has patina on it to clean up, right?

9:26 Yes. So regardless of the player, I bet you even found it was fun to play with these things after a while because it was like I can get this wax stain off or I can get this corner straight or whatever you want.

9:35 I did that with a lot of 87 tops like you know base car like crappy. They're all base cards, I guess. But like that's the problem with some of them. They have no rarity because they're all printed, you know, 800 million times the same card. Um, but yeah, I would play around with that like I don't know what that powdery I don't know what that substance is like you said that just gets on there and it comes off though.

9:57 It is I think that rhinos a lot of the plastic stuff that they were kept in. Yeah.

10:01 Plastic will degrade as the years go by and you'll get like a kind of like a surface degradation on those types of things. So, it's hey, I I am I I might be easily amused, but I just always I always loved my card collection and I always thought it was fun to just like make them look good again. You know what I mean? It's like who doesn't who doesn't clean up something like your space, your office, whatever, and it looks great and you feel good. I tell you, it's as silly as it sounds, cleaning up your old collection is like a super cool feeling and it's a good skill to have if you're an active collector. You can buy

10:31 So, just so we put this to the bed, like what is the debate though? Like I get that if you're getting like the paint out or getting uh like you're truly changing the card, you know, boundaries, right?

10:45 Like Yeah, there's boundaries here. Like I'm getting my uh I've got a professional like waxing like I you know, like putting a whole new coat of something on it or I don't know if that would be good, bad, or different. I'm making things up because I don't know how to do these things. Um but pain or something. I'm you know retouching it. But what is the heartburn over just purely cleaning up the cards and like restoring them without altering them? Why is there heartburn about that? I think Ryan because like a lot of times people don't like something until it's popular, you know, and I think that um at first and then sometimes you can think that like a few squeaky wheels speak for everybody, you know, the

11:32 sometimes we can grab a few bits of data and we think we painted a whole picture out of the trillions of bits of data out there, you know, because even like you as a person that's

11:41 in touch with media and plugged in, you didn't find about me until a few months ago. You know what I mean? And the last thing I thought was, "Wow, this is potentially a bad product doing bad." No, the first thing I thought was, "This makes a ton of sense and is amazing."

11:54 Right. Thanks for that. And that's and that's yours, but somebody could totally It's always rooted, you know?

12:00 It's like again, I get the retouching thing but and that's what I'll say, right? Cuz like here's what I would say to anybody. I'm assuming anybody watching this, I'm just going to assume that they've never seen anything like this before or they might not know enough. So, like the thing is me personally, I never got into this for a business. It turned into one, but I got into this because I loved cards my whole life. I didn't I don't I I grew up in a very bluecollar family in Detroit. Cards were kind of like my treasure. They seemed way more important to me than anything else. You know what I mean? So, like I started with a love of these things. And then 20 years ago when I'm cleaning off the surface of cards and working out figuring out ways to get wrinkles and dents out of them, never once did I think about like, oh, this is I'm going to like, you know, teach this to the whole world or

12:45 whatever like that. I just I just enjoyed it. So, I got good at it. And then I s in these cards to get graded and I'd realize, hey, if you know how to clean off stuff off the front or clean off stuff off the back or figure out, you know, shape them up, you can get a higher score. And personally, as a competitive person, I like that. You know what I mean? Sure, the money money's money is part of the picture, but I I'm me personally, if anybody wants to know, I don't even sell anything. I'm a I'm a Packarat collector. I am a collector. So, the narrative of somebody trying to say like, I just do this for a bunch of money. No, that don't work because I I don't even sell my cards. You know, they're all they're all I'm a hoarder.

13:19 Let's start at modern cards. What is improvable? Fix is the wrong word. Improvable. So, most modern cards, and I'll preface that saying even though '9s were a while ago, modern cards pretty much started in the '9s. If you guys collect, you know, like Tops Chrome and Panini Prism, we'll just stay right there. Chrome and Prism,

13:39 those cards as years go by, the plastic, like Ryan can tell you, on the front of them, they get cloudy, they get dingy, even if you kept them in a nice place, it just happens, you guys. So, like you can That's one of the most satisfying things. If you guys ever watch my before and afters and you see one that's just like looks like it's just cloudy and then you see one right there. Ryan will even tell you it only takes 10 seconds. It's not even

14:02 it's not a process. It's just seriously wiping it down. But then you'd say like well you know why can't you just use a towel. It just doesn't work that way. You got to be able to cut through that crap. So like cleaning up older cards stuff that's new. Um Ryan I make a um this right here. It's called Recovery. It's a It's a little light scratch remover. And it's great because a lot of the a lot of the Chrome cards and Prism cards have a thick plastic cover, but they they they're scratch magnets, man. You know, they get real scratched up.

14:31 So, like if you get good with recovery, you can do a little light surface buff and eliminate little surface scratches. Um, and then really finally, like the things that you can do on the back of these modern cards is if you ever see dents and stuff on the back, I can even show people how to get dents out. So, the modern cars, we can get maybe some dents out that might be on the back. We can get uh surface level small micro scratches potentially.

14:54 Um, what else with those modern cards? Is that about it? You know, the good thing about modern cards is Ryan, they're rigid and they're strong. So, you don't have a that but the but the but the blemishes are a lot of times permanent because on the front on the opposite I like to educate people like what what you're going to deal with if it's permanent.

15:11 Those dimples on the front. Uh, don't talk to me about dimples. Throw them out. Throw it out. You know, uh, those it's just I imagine when they make those cards, there's a heat press involved. There's, you know, there's a manufacturing process and it's just there's going to be little dimples on a thin small piece of plastic sometimes, you know. So, those are unmovable. The word print line, that's a collector word that we'll use a lot.

15:33 Yeah. Either print lines will be either dug into the card so deep it's like a river and it ain't going nowhere. Sometimes they're a streak of grease and you can wipe them off and you're like magic. And other times it's a little light scuff and you can use like recovery to buff it out a little bit. Those are going to vary, you know.

15:48 Uh vintage. What can we what can be expected? What are the types of things that Kurt's card care helps with?

15:54 My favorite my favorite. We could talk about paper vintage cards all day like but we'll we'll keep it short. You guys, even if you don't collect vintage paper cards right now, it's a good time to get involved because know your history, man. You know, you can learn so much from vintage athletes, vintage stories. You know, I'm a huge heart. My heart is history. I love history, you know, from my family tree to, you know, the all the baseball cards. So, like with baseball cards, p let's say cards, vintage cards are from when they started until 1988.

16:25 That would be vintage paper. And these are amazing, you guys, because they've been through so many eras. So, like stuff that's like a 100 years old could be just filthy dirty. And you can clean these cards so much. Like this is where I'll get the most like like thing, right? Like where I'll soak a card and get all the wrinkles and dirt to come out of it and then teach people how to dry them. And at first it blows people away, which goes back to one of your earlier questions is like where did people this stuff freaks people out because they never seen somebody soak a 1952 Mickey Manel until they met me. You know,

16:57 I kind of got a little bit of a twitch you saying the word soak. Oh dude, you got to watch

17:03 I haven't watched that video yet. I wait if you look at the you guys even this is where I'll have watchers Ryan that don't even collect because of my vintage stuff. I'll have people that say, "Hey, when are you going to do one like this coming up?" I'll be like, "You working on one?" They're like, "Oh, we don't even collect cards. We just like to watch the old ones you do."

17:21 I love that. So, I do too. And you know what the vintage ones do? Do you know how many older couples that like for just an example, I've had you never know who your customers are until they say hello to you. Really? You know, I assume they're guys. I assume they're probably 30 to 50, but that's a bunch of them. But there's a lot of really cool people that don't fit that demographic. I have couples that are like couples that are in their 70s and 80s that stopped bu building puzzles because now they go and get their old vintage cards and they work on cards together as a husband and wife. Like super sweet touching stuff.

17:56 You know what I mean? That's awesome. So like and that's where the vintage cards brings them in because they grew up watching these dudes. You know what I mean? Now, does that soaking process like does that improve grading or is it just a personal view?

18:09 Huge improvement. You know what I mean? Like, so you got to do you can't use friction on an old piece of paper. So, you got to do what's best for the card, you know, card care, right? So, you got to the only way that you're going to be able to and and like the fluids I use, you know, everything I build is archival grade gold standard. And that's why I couldn't find this type of stuff. I know what it takes to build this stuff, but it just doesn't exist for the types of projects we work on. You know, paint paint and ink on cards from the 40s and 50s is unique compared to stuff from the 70s and 80s. And if you don't know what you're doing, you're going to find out.

18:46 I love it, man. Um, what's like the one bit of advice for people or a couple bits that are getting into sort of restoring both old or new, maybe some universal truths.

19:01 Yeah. I mean, I would think that for me, like if anybody's watching this and you just find it interesting and you're like, you know what, that seems like something cool. I don't think it takes more than that. I think it's like something that I find that you'll do, but it's just like like say the thing like if um whatever you you whatever you like to do, say you like to exercise, you like to exercise probably because it's good for you, but you know, maybe you have a lot of good thoughts during it and like it just kind of brings out the best of you. I've had naturally people share a before and after and they say, "Hey, I enjoyed, you know, look look it the product actually works or whatever." But I really find that people that have are built like this way and if you don't want to do this, if you look at it and you're like, "God, I would never want to deal with it. It gives me stress and anxiety." Don't ever buy this

19:45 stuff. Don't ever do it. You know what I mean? Like I know a bunch of people love going golfing. I hate going golfing. Like I don't ever want to go. It's like I'll pass. Thank you. You know what I mean? So same thing with card care. But if you guys watch this and you see some of these before and afters, don't write a story that you're going to screw up and you suck. Write a story that you're like, "Hey, this is kick-ass and I'm gonna get good at it and I'm gonna learn because this dude like built all this stuff for me and like made a million videos to teach me." You know, that that's what I would say.

20:11 And I I'll add one for you and you you put this on there. It seems simple, but use those worthless raw cards that you darn that that are, you know, two cents, one cent, and nothing could improve the value. Test and practice on those.

20:29 Isn't that the greatest? Isn't that the greatest? Because like when I see my old man bending out like a fender of a 1970 AR CUDA, he didn't have a test one to go on. It was like you nail this or it's not going to look good. You know, so it's like when someone's LIKE, "OH, I'M NOT GOING TO BE GOOD AT WORKING OUT MY POKEMONS. I want to be like practice, dude.

20:50 Get in the game, man. Well, you got unlimited you got unlimited face cards over there to practice with."

20:55 I know. I want to be like this tough guy, you know? Come on. Don't give me that whining. And

21:00 maybe the most important question, Kurt, is do we have any kind of wholesale distributorship so that I can carry this in the store?

21:07 Dude, absolutely. Absolutely. You know, that I uh I that's that's really Ryan like a really special thing that we've had to help grow our company. You know, that's how you kind of check in to make sure you're you know, you see your returning customers, you see your company grow, but then also like retailers pop up around the world and around the country. And it's uh you know from from a guy that's works hard for everything. I couldn't thank anybody more than that. You know, just you guys are my people and I just I I love you to death, man. So, thank you so much.

21:36 Well, we're going to have a spot here at Collector Station and I'm going to get Bella to get details on that cuz I want to I want to have it in the store cuz uh you know, it's uh it's one of those things that you can't unsee and or unuse. And you want to Hey, if you're got a half a good bone in your body, you want to share it with somebody.

21:56 That's awesome, man. I can't thank you enough for that, Ryan. Hey, man. Where can everybody, you know, buy direct, learn more, keep up, watch video, you mentioned the YouTube, but give all the handles.

22:06 Yeah, man. So, like you guys, I'm pretty much at the seat Monday through Monday. you work eight days a week. But Instagram is a place where I get a lot of direct messages and I answer them, you know, because I I and I will.

22:21 They answered this one. Yeah, I did. That's how you guys met me. So then same with uh Facebook and then I'm on YouTube and then people go through my my uh emails. But the Kurt Curts Care is the website pretty much. You search the word Curtscard Care, you'll find me. All right. So that's but yeah, if you guys want to watch the weekly live show, I do that Wednesday nights 1000 p.m. EST on Instagram. And I'll always grab a vintage card, Pokemon card, and a new card to show love to all my customers and all the stuff that they love to work on and collect. And I've also I also take requests. I write them down all week of what people are asking for, what they want to learn. So like I like to be interactive and just like run a kick-ass fun company that like my customers kind of drive it, you know?

23:02 like I just kind of facilitate it and just let them have fun with it, you know, and that's that's important to me and that's how we do it.

23:09 Well, you got a fan here with me and everything at Collector Nation. So, I really appreciate you for coming on, Curtain. I love your products.

23:18 Thank you, Ryan. I am uh I am sincerely grateful for that, dude. And I look forward to connecting more. Have me back again because I want to get an update on all the projects you guys are working on and I can't wait to come down south and see that wonderful story you're putting together.

23:31 Exactly. We'd love to have you. It's Kur TS. That's Kurts with a K. Kurts Card Care. We'll have all the links in the show notes and of course on the website thecollectornation.com. We're bringing you the best, the brightest, the coolest, the innovative of collectibles and trading cards here on the network. We appreciate Kurt. We appreciate you. We'll see you next time on the Collector Nation. Thanks for tuning in to the show. Be sure to follow us on your go-to podcast platform and catch the full video episode over on YouTube. Visit us at collectornation.com and follow Ryan on Instagram at Ryan Alford. Now get out there and collect yours.

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Kurt’s Card Care emphasizes the importance of properly cleaning and maintaining vintage cards to preserve their value and appearance, highlighting the often surprising techniques used, such as soaking cards to remove dirt and wrinkles. The discussion reflects a passion for card preservation within the hobby, urging collectors to adopt best practices that enhance the longevity and aesthetics of…

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