Thanks John. I did think of that, but too late. Even before I started with my restoration attempt it had been soaked and mostly still damp for way too long since the event. So the edges, in about 2”, had already lifted from the glass. And with only minimal damage to the emulsion which is what made me think I might soak for a few hours and the whole print might lift off.
In all I did leave the print soaking for about 36 hours. Just to see what would happen. The print paper itself by that point was gradually decomposing… And then I somehow knocked the corner of the glass against my work surface and broke off a chunk. So I can’t even scrape the glass clean and reuse that! Of far greater monetary value were the five First Day Cancellations @ Fort Leavenworth of the 1994 Buffalo Soldiers commemorative stamp. Soggy. The three blocks-of-four with First-Day cancellations were better protected and probably could be considered almost new. stan > On Jul 26, 2017, at 3:01 PM, John <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 7/25/2017 09:17, Stanley Halpin wrote: >> >> Twelve hours on, I have declared the print to be gone. Virtually no >> additional lifting from the glass. On the edges where it had loosened >> a bit, the emulsion is gone. >> > > For future reference, if you have a print that's stuck to glass, you'd > probably be better off trying to photograph it using a copy light setup. > > If you've got glare from the glass, it can be reduced by using polarizing > filters on the lights (both in the same direction) and another polarizing > filter on the lens. > > I hesitated to suggest this before because your original post said you'd > already started trying to soak the print off. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
