Opening the lab
Conservation restoration takes nothing from your wallet: it gives back the value time took away from your collection. Look at the treatments and see what we can do for your cards.
Every card gets the same care, whether it is worth €3 or €3,000: even the energies from Heroic Ascension pass through the same hands. What changes with the value is the responsibility we take on — on a €2,000 vintage a wrong move cannot be undone, and that is what the price reflects.
Full or partial removal of scratches from the holo and of anything foreign on the surface, front and back. Includes reactivation of the original printing pigment: the colours breathe again.
Full or partial removal of chipping, pressure marks, wrinkles and creases from the surface of the card, front and back. If a wet stage is needed the card has to be cleaned as well: we tell you first, and we move to the complete treatment.
The complete treatment: holo scratches, chipping, pressure marks and wrinkles in one pass. Only €5 more than restoration alone — which is why almost everyone chooses this one.
With a Bic pen the odds are very good; with markers it depends on the type.
On this one the outcome is never guaranteed, so you do not carry the risk on your own: if the ink stays partly visible you pay 50% of the removal. The treatment underneath — cleaning or restoration — is paid in full, because that gets done either way.
We free it from the slab ourselves: that is the moment a card is most at risk, and we do not leave it to chance.
Work finished in 7 working days, on any treatment.
Putting pigment on white edges is well within our reach: it takes little, and in photos the result is spectacular. Replacing the back of a card — a reback — we can do that too. Both are techniques we have mastered, and both are ones we have decided not to offer.
Because they are the line beyond which a restored card becomes a doctored card: whoever buys it after you would never know. No exceptions, not even on request. We would rather hand you an honest card, with its history on it, than a perfect card nobody can trust.
Volume benefits are automatic: you do not have to ask, we apply them.
◈ Volume benefits do not stack with discount codes: we automatically apply whichever is better for you of the two, so you do not have to work it out.
In Bergamo and its province — and at every fair we attend — pickup and delivery are free. For everything else, every parcel travels insured.
We work with BGS, PSA e CGC: tiers, turnaround and prices live on their own page, together with everything we grade beyond cards — autographs, sealed packs, comics, video games, VHS and tickets.
They aren't picked the same way, and it's the mistake people make most often: with BGS the tier is speed, with PSA it's speed and value cap, with CGC it's insured value only — turnaround there is the same for every tier.
The grade is the company's call, not ours. If a card isn't worth grading, we say so first.
Send us a few photos: we tell you what can be done, what cannot, and what the work is worth. The diagnosis is free and commits you to nothing.
