Becky,
Back in the 1950s & ‘60s
lamination was seen as this marvelous means of preserving things!!! How
far we have come.
Someone may have a delamination solution,
but in the meantime, it seems to me that the value of those postcards is in the
images they contain, so if you could find someone with a camera (or scanner)
that can make a copy of the images, you’d have preserved what is most essential
to your historic record. Also, if there is writing on the back of the
cards that has historic meaning, it probably could be rescued by taking the
whole thing apart --by carefully slicing the lamination material around the
edge of each postcard and lifting it from the backing. Unless they were excessively
glued to the cardboard backing prior to lamination, the messages might still be
intact.
Lucy Sperlin
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Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005
7:07 AM
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Subject: Re: Laminated paper
Please respond to the list – I
have a “lamination disaster” too. Apparently during our
museum’s early years someone prepared a “poster” of historic
postcards and LAMINATED them to the poster board. I keep it in my office hoping
that someday I’ll find a way to save those postcards.
Becky Fitzgerald
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Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005
9:49 AM
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Subject: Laminated paper
Hello all,
Does anyone know if a laminated paper can be opened again?
If so, how?
Responses appreciated,
Isabella.