How to flatten card that have a curl?

Andybrown

Anyone have some old-time tricks to flatten out cards that were stored in a snap-case. Without damaging the cards, of course! The card stock is nice and stiff and the cards are in NM-M condition, centered, etc., except for the slight curl.
Thanks.

Estil

I guess use some heavy books?

zef204

<< <i>I guess use some heavy books? >>



Yep...

Put it in a penny sleeve and then a CS1 and put it under some books for a few days.

digicat

The book/weight trick works wonders.

I busted a box of 1985 Topps football a while back, in which all the cards were warped. I put the gradable cards in penny sleeves, CardSaver 1s, stacked them up, and put them under some heavy boxes for a week or so. This worked great. The two Warren Moon rookies I pulled from the box got PSA 9s.

I put the rest of the cards in a card box, cut some pieces of cardboard to fill in the empty space so that the cards were forced flat. I left them that way for a few months, and that did the trick.