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Easy Way to Increase the Value of a Near Worthless Product by 2000% or More!

Visit a couple of flea markets and boot sales this weekend where you’ll often find dirty photographs – not that kind of dirty photograph – priced 50 pence at most and worth twenty, thirty or many more pounds on eBay.

Okay, I’m on about vintage postcards again but with very good reason, being that after forty years of collecting and selling postcards even I didn’t know how to remove a filthy mark that can make a potentially very valuable postcard uttering worthless.  I learned the secret today!

The filthy mark is usually a wavy line on the front of a real photographic postcard and it’s caused by the photographic side of the card coming into contact with the postmark from another item in the post.  The problem stems from the fact that letters and cards posted in the early 1900s had their postmarks applied using a hand stamp covered in thick sticky ink.  Once applied the item would be placed face down on a flat surface and the hand stamp applied to the next letter or card placed on the pile and causing wet postmarks to stain the front of hundreds of subsequent items.

However, the main problem for me is that for more than four decades I’ve binned postmark stained items or sold them for pennies at flea markets because I never once thought it was possible to remove those stains.  That’s because I expected ink impressions from the late 1800s or early 1900s to dry up over the course of a century and become impossible to remove. 

But I was wrong as I discovered today when I spotted fingerprints on the front of a real photographic postcard beside a minor postmark stain that would not significantly deplete its value.

Fingerprints are easy to remove with a lanolin face wipe, the kind we girls use to remove our make up, and once removed the card can be left to dry and become blemish free.  But strangely, as I applied the wipe lightly to the fingerprints I noticed the ink stain also growing lighter until finally it disappeared altogether. 

And that’s when I realised that photographs are less porous than plain paper and card, which makes dirt and grime less likely to penetrate the surface and cause lasting damage.

Amazingly, the wipe also removes stains from other non-porous surfaces like plastic book covers and dust jackets, also glossy cigarette cards and even from advertising signs and other metal objects.

There you go, forty years’ experience for you to benefit from in less time than it took to read this article!

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