Nothing better than putting a set in pages

tkd7

I've decided to take some of my sets out of their boxes and put them in albums.

Nothing better than putting a set in pages. Right now I'm doing '93 Upper Decks.

This set has great photos and has brought up names I haven't thought about in a long long time.....

Rick Sutcliffe, Kent Hrbek, Jeff Innis, Ben McDonald.... just to name a few.

Great way to stay off ebay for a night.

lawnmowerman

<< <i>I've decided to take some of my sets out of their boxes and put them in albums.
Nothing better than putting a set in pages. >>



My wife went to a local thrift store yesterday. She was gone about ten minutes and the phone rings. It was her saying "Matt come down here, they have about 20 binders full of cards!" I said no way are you sure? She said yup. So I hauled butt down there trying not to get to excited. I walked in and sure enough binders everywhere. I thought, this was it I am finally going to hit the jackpot! They were in a display so I asked the associate to see them. She pulled them out a few at a time. I went through them hoping to get to the "vintage" card binder but it never happened. Of course it was all late 80's early 90's stuff. The cards were all pretty much mint and perfectly numbered in the correct orders. They all looked great, each binder marked $39.99.

So I guess what I am trying to say is they did look really nice displayed in the binders. So have fun with you binders tonite

matt

NewJerseyMeatHook

My dad has 1952 through '59 complete sets in binders. Used to lay on the living room floor for hours looking at those albums. He still won't let me physically touch them, however! Oh, yeah, I am 37 years old.

Great way to enjoy cards.

Didn't some of the first plastic sheets actually eat away the cards?

zef204

I have football sets from 1973-1987 all in binders. I enjoy paging through them from time to time.

tkd7

Yeah, old sheets did rot cards. My dad bought me a couple of photo albums to display my cards about 25 years ago (I'm 40 now) and they were great. I have great memories of going to card shows with my dad.

lawnmowerman, you are right, sets look great in pages. They seem so much more substantial than being in boxes.

lawnmowerman

<< <i>My dad has 1952 through '59 complete sets in binders. Used to lay on the living room floor for hours looking at those albums. He still won't let me physically touch them, however! Oh, yeah, I am 37 years old.

Great way to enjoy cards.

Didn't some of the first plastic sheets actually eat away the cards? >>

I had my 81 Donruss set in plastic sheets the day I bought it. That was 25 years ago and now the cards are all yellow. I dont know when the pages were made archival safe but they sure werent in 1981.

Matt

digicat

I used to like binders, but it seems that the top row of cards are basically exposed to the elements, where dust and such can get in and mess with the cards. I like the idea of slip cases to deal with that though.

Won't the slight bend of the page (as it's in the binder on the shelf) start to have an effect on the cards though?

lawnmowerman

<< <i>I used to like binders, but it seems that the top row of cards are basically exposed to the elements, where dust and such can get in and mess with the cards. I like the idea of slip cases to deal with that though.

Won't the slight bend of the page (as it's in the binder on the shelf) start to have an effect on the cards though? >>

I think if you stand them up like books in a library the bend thing might not be a problem.

matt

Stone193

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<< <i>My dad has 1952 through '59 complete sets in binders. Used to lay on the living room floor for hours looking at those albums. He still won't let me physically touch them, however! Oh, yeah, I am 37 years old.

Great way to enjoy cards.

Didn't some of the first plastic sheets actually eat away the cards? >>

I had my 81 Donruss set in plastic sheets the day I bought it. That was 25 years ago and now the cards are all yellow. I dont know when the pages were made archival safe but they sure werent in 1981.

Matt >>


Matt
Wasn't that the pages with PVC that reacts with cardboard and turns it yellow? PVC is a relatively unstable plastic next to others and emits hydrochloric acid over time - which of course will deteriorate paper goods.

mike

zef204

The pages can and do damage some cards over time. I put the sets in binders in '89 and they sat there for years. I several cards have suffered but I was young and dumb and PSA wasn't even on the horizon.

I would not put the cards in binders now, but I had to comment that they are nice to flip through.

lawnmowerman

Mike, yup pvc. Ruined the first whole set I had

matt

bsavage

The biggest problem I have with binders is that they take up way to much room. I used to have all of my sets in pages, but I had to put them all in boxes. Now I have tons of binders and pages rotting in the attic. I agree, though, it's fun to flip through pages of cards.

rbdjr1

<< <i>

<< <i>My dad has 1952 through '59 complete sets in binders. Used to lay on the living room floor for hours looking at those albums. He still won't let me physically touch them, however! Oh, yeah, I am 37 years old.

Great way to enjoy cards.

Didn't some of the first plastic sheets actually eat away the cards? >>

I had my 81 Donruss set in plastic sheets the day I bought it. That was 25 years ago and now the cards are all yellow. I dont know when the pages were made archival safe but they sure werent in 1981.

Matt >>




Bingo! Now called "PVC safe", or as u said, "Archival safe" or "Acid free with no PVC". Its too bad your material, which you took the effort to protect 25 years ago, were really not protected from harm after all.

I guess the old holders, sleeves, team bags, etc. went the way of "lead paint" or asbestos siding"? Who knew? I wonder just how many thousands of great card collections "got trashed" over the years, because of not having them stored away properly in "ARCHIVAL SAFE" products?


rbd


P.S. maybe mom and dad's "olde shoe boxes" would have been the best bet after all?

digicat

<< <i><< I used to like binders, but it seems that the top row of cards are basically exposed to the elements, where dust and such can get in and mess with the cards. I like the idea of slip cases to deal with that though.
Won't the slight bend of the page (as it's in the binder on the shelf) start to have an effect on the cards though? >>
I think if you stand them up like books in a library the bend thing might not be a problem.
matt >>



Hmm. Maybe if you could find a way to pinch the binder shut...

Just putting them on a shelf won't help, unless you've got the binder packed with pages. Otherwise, the binder cover will open a little and the pages will start to settle.

tkd7

I've found it is much nicer to flip through the pages than pull out a box and look through the cards. I never thought of the issues of dirt getting into the top of the pages. I typically store my binders with the spine horizontal, not vertical, so I guess that isn't an issue. Maybe there are others.

Besides, I'm not expecting my '93 UD set to pay for my retirement.

Stone193

I sure like the appearance of the Roop binders.

And if one had a big run and the wall space...

How cool would it look to have a complete run of Topps up on a large bookshelf?



And I agree with tkd...

If we had them on the shelf in nice binders, we would be much more likely to pull the set out and just look at the cards and backs on a cold, rainy saturday afternoon?

mike

smallstocks

I have an almost complete set of 1955 topps baseball in sheets that have been there since 1980. I have never seen any damage to any cards. For that matter, I only use those same plastic sheets now as I still have many 100's leftover from those days.

bishop

Mike

Exactly how many cold rainy Saturdays have you had in the last year or so where you are ?