How Do You Remove Grease Pencil?

[Mr. Zipper]

Goo Gone works well in removing crayon off walls, furniture, tile, etc.

 

I suspect a bit of Goo Gone on a cotton swab would have done the trick nicely without removing the cover ink.

[BlowUpTheMoon]

Copied these from the Manufactured Gold Thread. Link.

 

Note the grease penciled 'S' under the 'T' in "Thrilling" was removed.

 

[Hero Restoration]

Goo Gone works well in removing crayon off walls, furniture, tile, etc.

 

I suspect a bit of Goo Gone on a cotton swab would have done the trick nicely without removing the cover ink.

 

Goo gone removes cover inks. Cotton swabing with solvent and friction is not a good idea if you don't want marks. I would have tried Absorene first. If that failed then I would have removed the cover and soaked it in solvent.

 

Cover inks are very sensitive since they sit on the surface of the cover rather than in it like pages.

[Mr. Zipper]

Copied these from the Manufactured Gold Thread. Link.

 

Note the grease penciled 'S' under the 'T' in "Thrilling" was removed.

 

 

In this case I suspect the S had no bearing on grade. It was probably removed to obscure the origin of the book and make it more difficult for casual observers to see an 8.0 had turned into a 9.2.

[joeypost]

Copied these from the Manufactured Gold Thread. Link.

 

Note the grease penciled 'S' under the 'T' in "Thrilling" was removed.

 

 

In this case I suspect the S had no bearing on grade. It was probably removed to obscure the origin of the book and make it more difficult for casual observers to see an 8.0 had turned into a 9.2.

 

More likely that it was removed as part of a larger cleaning process. Especially if the book was given a bath.

[faster friends]

Looks like the BC colors are lighter. It could have been washed. Can't washing be detected by CGC and if so would it not get a restored label???

[Mr. Zipper]

More likely that it was removed as part of a larger cleaning process. Especially if the book was given a bath.

 

If that was the case, wouldn't the book have been PLOD? I presume CGC would PLOD any book disassembled then given a water or solvent bath.

 

If not, failure to detect and note these procedures is far worse than the grade bump.

[JazzMan]

Are you sure that it was originally a grease pencil? It may just have been a pencil and been dry cleaned. From what I've seen, dry cleaning is not considered restoration by CGC.

[divad]

Are you sure that it was originally a grease pencil? It may just have been a pencil and been dry cleaned. From what I've seen, dry cleaning is not considered restoration by CGC.

 

Grease pencil (aka laundry marker) often will come off with just a light dry-cleaning with a white-gum eraser, however, sometimes a shadow is left. Emphasis on light. The Startling appears to have been dry-cleaned and possibly pressed to increase the grade. I doubt it was washed, as CGC would probably be able to detect that. What is shocking, is that the image database isn't at least consulted with books like this.

[Jeffro.]

Why must everything be about greggy?