Resto Check

[qualitycomix]

I'm looking for the resto on this book thru the holder. Difficult I know!

 

I've attached a scan of the upper right corner of the book. Can anyone tell if that's color touch up there?

 

Color Touch?

[rob_react]

Creases don't lose ink in order to show black underneath

[Artboy99]

Looks like color touch to me.

 

Artboy99

[Timulty]

This looks like it is slabbed. Is that correct?

[Mr. Zipper]

Sure looks like a CT to me.

 

IMO, the only possible explanation other than CT is that there are some light surface scuffs that give the appearance of a crease.

 

Is this a CGC or PGX slab?

[Timulty]

I was looking at an area that appears to be color fleck with CT. It could be CT there or it could be the bag or slab scuffed. Hard to say. It is awfully wrinkled over such a small area. If it is slabbed you would practically have to break it out to look at the backside of the cover. So, I am would say its up in the air, at least.

[rob_react]

I was looking at an area that appears to be color fleck with CT. It could be CT there or it could be the bag or slab scuffed. Hard to say. It is awfully wrinkled over such a small area. If it is slabbed you would practically have to break it out to look at the backside of the cover. So, I am would say its up in the air, at least.

 

I don't think it's up in the air at all. Yeah, if the book weren't already identified as restored we could give it the benefit of the doubt, but even then I'd be dubious. Since we're just trying to spot restoration that we know to be there I'm pretty confident that we're seeing some corner creases (a very common defect) covered up and not some pencil thin scuffs that just happen to run across the corner in such a way as to look like corner creases (an improbable set of defects, I'd think.)

[Mr. Zipper]

if the book weren't already identified as restored we could give it the benefit of the doubt,

 

Oops... I missed this point in Brent's first post. I thought he suspected resto in a slab that was not already PLOD.

 

Then there is no doubt that's what we are looking at.

[qualitycomix]

I was looking at an area that appears to be color fleck with CT. It could be CT there or it could be the bag or slab scuffed. Hard to say. It is awfully wrinkled over such a small area. If it is slabbed you would practically have to break it out to look at the backside of the cover. So, I am would say its up in the air, at least.

 

There are creases in that area and there was no white showing thru so I was curious. Also, there's what looks to be a slightly different color black on the creases but I wasn't sure if that was my eyes playing tricks on me. Really hard to tell in the holder.

[Mr. Zipper]

There are creases in that area and there was no white showing thru so I was curious. Also, there's what looks to be a slightly different color black on the creases but I wasn't sure if that was my eyes playing tricks on me. Really hard to tell in the holder.

 

It looks as if it may be a "dust color touch."

 

Very fine creases can be colored in by gently rubbing a fine black powder over the creases. I suspect that pencil shavings or some sort of powdery makeup is used. (ebay seller SAMCO burned me with a few books that were color touched using this method.)

 

It works fairly well because the powder only sticks to the fine line where there is a break and there is no bleedthrough. The giveaway is the slight difference in reflectivity and some of the powder may rub off if you gently rub the suspect area with your finger.

[divad]

There are creases in that area and there was no white showing thru so I was curious. Also, there's what looks to be a slightly different color black on the creases but I wasn't sure if that was my eyes playing tricks on me. Really hard to tell in the holder.

 

It looks as if it may be a "dust color touch."

 

Very fine creases can be colored in by gently rubbing a fine black powder over the creases. I suspect that pencil shavings or some sort of powdery makeup is used. (ebay seller SAMCO burned me with a few books that were color touched using this method.)

 

It works fairly well because the powder only sticks to the fine line where there is a break and there is no bleedthrough. The giveaway is the slight difference in reflectivity and some of the powder may rub off if you gently rub the suspect area with your finger.

 

Interesting Zip, good point

[qualitycomix]

There are creases in that area and there was no white showing thru so I was curious. Also, there's what looks to be a slightly different color black on the creases but I wasn't sure if that was my eyes playing tricks on me. Really hard to tell in the holder.

 

It looks as if it may be a "dust color touch."

 

Very fine creases can be colored in by gently rubbing a fine black powder over the creases. I suspect that pencil shavings or some sort of powdery makeup is used. (ebay seller SAMCO burned me with a few books that were color touched using this method.)

 

It works fairly well because the powder only sticks to the fine line where there is a break and there is no bleedthrough. The giveaway is the slight difference in reflectivity and some of the powder may rub off if you gently rub the suspect area with your finger.

 

I hadn't heard of that method. Interesting.

 

I'm still not 100% convinced the CT is there.

[Aces]

There are creases in that area and there was no white showing thru so I was curious. Also, there's what looks to be a slightly different color black on the creases but I wasn't sure if that was my eyes playing tricks on me. Really hard to tell in the holder.

 

It looks as if it may be a "dust color touch."

 

Very fine creases can be colored in by gently rubbing a fine black powder over the creases. I suspect that pencil shavings or some sort of powdery makeup is used. (ebay seller SAMCO burned me with a few books that were color touched using this method.)

 

It works fairly well because the powder only sticks to the fine line where there is a break and there is no bleedthrough. The giveaway is the slight difference in reflectivity and some of the powder may rub off if you gently rub the suspect area with your finger.

 

I hadn't heard of that method. Interesting.

 

I'm still not 100% convinced the CT is there.

 

You try the old "black light in a dark room" trick?

Doesn't always work but sometimes it does.

[qualitycomix]

There are creases in that area and there was no white showing thru so I was curious. Also, there's what looks to be a slightly different color black on the creases but I wasn't sure if that was my eyes playing tricks on me. Really hard to tell in the holder.

 

It looks as if it may be a "dust color touch."

 

Very fine creases can be colored in by gently rubbing a fine black powder over the creases. I suspect that pencil shavings or some sort of powdery makeup is used. (ebay seller SAMCO burned me with a few books that were color touched using this method.)

 

It works fairly well because the powder only sticks to the fine line where there is a break and there is no bleedthrough. The giveaway is the slight difference in reflectivity and some of the powder may rub off if you gently rub the suspect area with your finger.

 

I hadn't heard of that method. Interesting.

 

I'm still not 100% convinced the CT is there.

 

You try the old "black light in a dark room" trick?

Doesn't always work but sometimes it does.

 

I'm not sure that would work thru the holder, but I could try.

[B-Smooth]

 

It looks as if it may be a "dust color touch."

 

Very fine creases can be colored in by gently rubbing a fine black powder over the creases. I suspect that pencil shavings or some sort of powdery makeup is used. (ebay seller SAMCO burned me with a few books that were color touched using this method.)

 

It works fairly well because the powder only sticks to the fine line where there is a break and there is no bleedthrough. The giveaway is the slight difference in reflectivity and some of the powder may rub off if you gently rub the suspect area with your finger.

 

Other than rubbing the area, is there another way to check for this?