FF 10 What Resto Is This? 1 1

[comicginger1789]

A nice FF 10 here but the back cover feels weird and you can see on the second pic along inside of back cover the colour change in paper. Is this leaf casting or a reprinted cover? 

[comicginger1789]

Here is the front

[KirbyTown]

I believe it is...#11! 😀

How does the front cover feel in comparison?

Also, does the cover feel like air-dried paper and do those waves go through the entire book?

Also, is the mold throughout the book?

Also, Is it possible the entire book was split and that there is filler on each wrap?

Also, where did you get this and when?

 

Edited August 25, 2022 by KirbyTown

[comicginger1789]

On 8/25/2022 at 12:49 PM, KirbyTown said:

I believe it is...#11! 😀

How does the front cover feel in comparison?

Also, do those air-dry type of waves go through the entire book?

Also, is the mold throughout the book?

Also, Is it possible the entire book was split and that there is filler on each wrap?

Also, where did you get this and when?

 

 

It is 11

Front cover feels good. Waves on edges of cover only. Mold eh? Could be that…I can’t say as I’ve ever come across one in person so I’m no mold expert. The back cover felt thicker though. And I don’t own. A guy I know is selling it and I wanted to help him out if it is restored by giving him heads up

Edited August 25, 2022 by comicginger1789

[theCapraAegagrus]

I wonder if someone dropped it back cover-side into a puddle?

[KirbyTown]

On 8/25/2022 at 12:31 PM, comicginger1789 said:

Mold eh?

It could be anything 🤷‍♂️

If this were mine, I would quarantine it and try to sell it asap; that's just because I don't like risking the rest of my stuff or my health if something proves to be inactive mold and somehow re-activates.

Whatever it is, it's on a lot of the back cover. That could potentially make it feel weird, though I imagine that'd be more from the drying.

I used phone filters here just to show how large the affected area appears to be; this is definitely not spectrometry or something:

There's definitely some kind of material attached to the cover and next wrap. I don't know if it's trimmed fill from casting or whatever, but I'm sure a conservationist could elucidate!

I doubt it's a facsimile cover. 

Please don't inhale any of these images 🤮

On 8/25/2022 at 12:39 PM, theCapraAegagrus said:

I wonder if someone dropped it back cover-side into a puddle?

And a quick retrieval hopefully

 

Edited August 25, 2022 by KirbyTown

[MattTheDuck]

That is the correct back cover?

That first picture looked like a line of glue to me.

[KirbyTown]

On 8/25/2022 at 5:23 PM, MattTheDuck said:

correct back cover

yeah, it's correct for the issue.

Edited August 25, 2022 by KirbyTown

[comicginger1789]

I passed on buying it soon as I saw it. He has it priced as a 2.0 raw but I still didn’t want it because I didn’t know what was going on back there, hence why I wanted to check with some more educated minds than mine

[James J Johnson]

On 8/25/2022 at 6:51 PM, comicginger1789 said:

I passed on buying it soon as I saw it. He has it priced as a 2.0 raw but I still didn’t want it because I didn’t know what was going on back there, hence why I wanted to check with some more educated minds than mine

Good call. Moisture damage + moderate to severe mold = Pass