Staple rub and dry cleaning?

[The-Collector]

Hey

 

Just wondering if dry cleaning will help with staple rub?

 

Thanks in advance for your help

 

[joeypost]

I am assuming you are taking about staple rub in a white area of the book?

 

If color is lost as a result of a raised area (staple, crease, etc.) no amount of pressing will help. If you are talking about soiled raised areas like the back of a square bound book a dry cleaning and proper press would help.

[The-Collector]

Hmmm. I am talking about the black marks you seem to get on a lot of bronze books around their staples. Like here:

 

http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=5946996#Post5946996

 

Or here on the Tod 10:

 

http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=5953051&fpart=15

 

 

I have a few other books that look like that. Is staple rub the right thing to call it?

 

Cheers

 

Jake

[asteroid-comix]

If you're talking about the black around the top staple of the ASM 129, then I don't think anything is going to help that. If you try to dry clean it, you'll likely have color loss, since it's on the yellow. Then you're going to be worse than when you started.