1991 Impel Marvel Universe Series II Silver Sable #21

A test card: some of these binder cards carry a sticky substance or glue, so I was going to do a test card on Sweet Miss Silver Sable here 05:41, just going to try to roll out some corners 05:58. The cards being prepared for grading are the Deadpool and Cable 03:37-03:47.

Walked top to bottom from 06:59. Top-left corner nine and a half, ten 07:21. Top: no whitening, looks fantastic, honestly ... very sharp, very crisp 07:26, then a little bit of a bend mark in there, from the card leaning forward in storage, doesn't look like a compression 07:34-07:49. Top-right corner: a little bit of an imprint, pressed in, maybe even a card that was sitting in front of it in a binder too long 08:10-08:34. Right side: no whitening. Beautiful 08:42. Bottom-right corner: a little bit of a lift. I wonder if putting it in a press is going to fix that 08:50. Top, the right side gets a ten, bottom, bottom gets a nine and a half 08:55. The bottom-right corner looked at again: imperceptible ... no dent. See if we can't get that out in the press 09:00-09:31. Bottom-left corner: the slight imperfection 09:31. Surface: a non-clean look and a couple scrapes right there 09:53-10:01. Front's going to be an overall nine and a half 10:20.

From 10:48. Something there definitely needs to be rolled out ... I think that can be fixed 11:09. Corners: separation, so this could be fixed 11:15, and some discoloration 11:23. There's a bend on the top right corner on the back. So that's going to bring it down to like a six, five or six, but it could be fixed 11:31. A lot of dirt, just sort of a dark color tint 11:43. No whole-card figure was given at intake; it came at 32:52 (see the press session).

The first thing we always do is we clean and wipe it down 12:02, with a microfiber and a new disposable cloth 12:07 13:03. The front feels pretty clean 12:23; the back was dull, this is exactly what needed to be done 13:33-13:47. With the dirt off: looks like some damage right there 14:23, that would bring the value down for this card, for sure 14:50, and the back edges are going to get like a six, all the way around 14:56. Two spots, one on her face, were water spots from his gloves and wiped off 15:13 15:56-16:13.

From 16:29. A humidity bath would do well for this card, but I'm just going to apply some water to the edge 16:51-17:00, then the roller 17:13: these are fiber cards ... just want those edges to lay down 17:24-17:30. More water, excess wiped off, both faces 18:14-19:11. He kept it local on purpose: I don't want the whole card to be rehumidified, it should still feel vintage 19:41-19:52. Done on the left side of the back and the right side of the front 20:00.

you can tell that I rolled it from here. Yeah, so probably did too much 20:12; did roll out that center pretty hard 20:53; this is definitely going to show 21:05; squeezed that a little too tight. So lesson learned, I need to take it easy on the side 21:31. The left side was left unpressed and the other pressed, as a comparison 21:43. A gentler pass with a different tool 22:02-23:41; getting uncomfortable with the results 22:56; a little bubble on it, and I don't want to exacerbate it 24:39-25:27; definitely starting to look like somebody tried to press it 25:35. The worst thing that can happen is I submit and these cards don't come back right, so I don't want to alter it 26:33.

Let's do our application and press it. So we're going to do our card doc cleaner 27:23. Planned press time about an hour; 24 hours is a normal go-to, but I'm kind of trying to just test different variables 27:37-27:55. Front polished: that scratch is gone, you can barely see it now 29:30. Back polished 29:59: like waxing a car ... more like a lubricant than anything 32:01. You still see those damage points ... looks like varicose veins. It's definitely damage 32:14-32:27.

this card was definitely eight, probably, even in its condition, and to the eye it looks like a ten 32:52-33:00; the front is immaculate, something is stuck on the back 33:05.

Between parchment cut to card shape 33:52-34:18, under a high-pressure clamp 35:51, to focus right on the inside of those corners 36:05. His expectation, not a result: the extra work takes it from an 8 to a 9 36:21. The recording ends before the card comes out; Deadpool and Cable are named as the next two to work on 36:45-37:03.

After 24 hours on the press R 00:01-00:08, not the hour planned. Looks practically brand new R 00:26. That little piece up there didn't come out, though R 00:39, and a slight dent R 00:53. The back edges, part of the edge work, are looking pretty good R 00:58-01:04. On the rolled edge: you can see right there, the little edge right there looks like it's been done, but overall, card looks great R 01:31-01:36; the other side looks a little better ... still there, though R 01:46-01:53. In the light, without magnification, it definitely looks like something has been rolled, and I don't want it to look like that R 02:04-02:14.

my best bet is just to clean and press the cards and just see what kind of damage there is on them, then go from there R 02:20-02:28. No number was spoken at this sitting.