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Vent: my 1911 Baedeker map of Belgium fell apart mid road trip and I taped it back together wrong
Last week I was driving through Brugge with a reprint of a 1911 Baedeker and the whole spine just gave out, so I did the dumbest thing and taped the pages back in with packing tape in the dark. Now page 47 (the one with the canal ring) is glued to page 92 (Antwerp suburbs) and I have no clue where half of these old tram lines actually ran. Does anybody know a good way to un-stick tape from 20-year-old paper without wrecking the print, or should I just buy another copy and admit defeat?
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felix986d ago
Wait, why are you trying to save the taped one at all? Here's the thing nobody's mentioned yet: that packing tape job might actually be a clue. If you can figure out which way the tape runs across the spine, you could match the tear pattern to where the stitching used to be, and that tells you the original page order without ever unsticking anything. Old Baedekers were sewn in signatures of 16 pages, so page 47 and page 92 being glued together means you skipped at least two whole signatures somewhere in the middle. Count the pages between them and you'll know exactly how many are floating loose. Honestly the tape might be holding the only record of what order things were in before the spine died.
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