Were Ultra Pro sheets around in 1976?

BaltimoreYankee

As an avid collector from that era, I don't recall them being a thing. There is an eBay ad for a 1976 Topps set where the seller is saying he bought the cards in 1976 and immediately placed them in Ultra Pro sheets.

PSASAP

He's probably just using a brand name for plastic pages, when he means any plastic page. All bandages are not Band-Aids, though most people call them that.

BaltimoreYankee

also like Advil or Q-tip, I guess.

jackstraw

I started collecting in 76 and the first recollection I have for sheets is around 79ish but that doesn't mean
they didn't exist before that..

jmb

My neighbor was about 10 years older than me. He had sheets full of Mantle cards. This was the mid 70's.

BaltimoreYankee

It just seems weird to me that someone would put cards straight into sheets in '76 and never take them out. I can see people now ripping packs and putting them directly into Card Savers.

ldferg

<< <i>It just seems weird to me that someone would put cards straight into sheets in '76 and never take them out. I can see people now ripping packs and putting them directly into Card Savers. >>



I did this in the early 80s. I can see it being done earlier.

jmb

There was also an older gentleman who lived a few blocks from me. He put all of his faith into Pete Rose and had multiples of all of his cards in sheets. He had a binder full of nothing but Rose cards including several rookies. This was late 70's to early 80's. He sold me a bunch of HOF's from the 50's to buy more Rose cards.

flcardtrader

I had sets in sheets from 77 onward. I used to put them 2 to a insert and didn't think about doubling the pages to get a set in there until the mid 80's.

The sheets were much more rigid than today's soft/flexible sheets. The big thing back then was "No PC-something-or-other" which was a chemical that ruined cards.

I don't think Ultra Pro was around though. I think they came around in the late 80's - but I could be wrong.

mikelowell25

<< <i>I had sets in sheets from 77 onward. I used to put them 2 to a insert and didn't think about doubling the pages to get a set in there until the mid 80's.

The sheets were much more rigid than today's soft/flexible sheets. The big thing back then was "No PC-something-or-other" which was a chemical that ruined cards.

I don't think Ultra Pro was around though. I think they came around in the late 80's - but I could be wrong. >>



I think the acronym you were looking for is "PVC", which stands for polyvinyl chloride.

I first remember buying plastic sheets in the late 70's/early 80's and they were produced by ENOR.

Piggs

I seem to remember the name Rotman plastic sheets early on I think in the 70's. When I removed my cards years later it left the sheets a orange color especially my '56 Topps cards. Meaning it probably took the color off the cards. It was a cool thing to come around for collectors back then.

lawnmowerman

I have some sheets from the late 70's that I can dig out tomorrow. I can't remember the name but these are obviously made with pvc given the fact they turned a rather bad shade of orange/yellow.

lawnmowerman

I'm not exactly sure what they have been making since 1952 but according to their website, that's when they started.



<< <i>Ultra PRO International LLC ("Ultra PRO") is the leading manufacturer and supplier of sports and gaming collectibles accessories, photo and scrapbooking albums and pages and Ultra Sleeves™, our line of disposable, protective sleeves for computer tablets. We have been designing and manufacturing top quality products since 1952, and our brands are recognized for its high quality standards and design innovations.

We market and sell our products through a top-tier network of over 150 distributors and customers in North America, Europe and Asia, which in turn supplies our products to thousands of hobby shops, toy stores and other retailers worldwide. In addition, we offer our photo-related products and Ultra Sleeves™ through our online store.
Ultra PRO is a privately-held, family-owned company with head offices near Los Angeles, California. We supply our distributors and customers primarily from our main warehouse in California, and through a secondary warehouse in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. >>

SDSportsFan

I started buying sets of cards in 1975 and put them directly into plastic pages. The companies I remember are Rotman, Enor and Den's Collector's Den (Dennis Eckes).

Towards the mid-1980s, it started to come out that the pages could damage the cards due to the PVC in them. The plastic was thicker than current pages, and after a while, they'd get an oily texture to them. The oil would seep out of the plastic, and soak into the cards. That's when other companies started making non-PVC pages.

Edited to add:

I don't remember exactly when Ultra Pro pages began to appear, but it definitely wasn't until the mid-late 1980s. This sounds like a seller using the term "Ultra Pro" in a generic sense, like terming all copier machines "Zerox machines", or calling all colas "Coke".


Steve