Graded card display case questions

1957Braves

Happy wild card weekend everyone.

I am looking for options and opinions on graded card display cases. For this particular set, it's for the All-Time Milwaukee Bucks registry set I requested and had PSA set up a few months ago. Please take a moment to finish your chuckling.

I would like a display case for this as I work towards completion. I see on eBay there are some options available for sale but want to check with the experts here. The set now I think is like 25 cards, but may grow as players are added to the list. Again, I'll wait for the laughing to stop.

Can I solicit some opinions and/or examples on how others have display cases? The things that concern me off the top of my head are first light damage. Does the PSA case itself have any UV protection built in? I would most certainly like the display case to have UV protection, but what does that really mean? Can I put the case in a room that will have direct sunlight and expect the cards to remain in the condition they are now? Does the UV protection decrease over time? Is best to avoid as much light exposure as possible?

Secondly, this particular set has a mix of now standard card sizes as well as a few tall boy cards form the sixties. Anyone have a case that can accommodate this sort of mix while still remaining aesthetically pleasing?

Please feel free to mention anything else I may be overlooking. I very much appreciate in advance any responses the group takes the time to post.

Griffins

The psa slab has no UV protection. I would suggest a custom designed case, with UV glass.

I would never expose cards to direct sunlight any more than necessary, but if you can't enjoy them what's the point of having them? Keep them out of direct sunlight as much as possible, and certainly out of flourescent light (use a full spectrum bulb).

In regards to the humor of collecting all time Bucks, collect what you like and make no excuses for it!

1957Braves

Thanks Griff. Are there different levels of UV protection? Like 5 year effective, 10 year effective. Anything like that. As you can see, I know absolutely nothing about this subject. Most of my cards, especially autographed, are in storage boxes, but like you said, displaying them is part of the enjoyment.

lilmule

I know with glass, their are different types of glass. For expensive artwork they use museum glass which protects artwork from all different types of elements, but pretty expensive. For display cases I know Someone who works a lot with wood and make all different kinds of things

usmc1775tdr

I had some very similar questions recently so I did some research. The UV glass is expensive but if you're only talking about one case and it's your pride and joy it's probably worth the small investment. As far as finding the right case, I got rather frustrated with trying to find a case that was high quality, would fit the number of cards I wanted etc so I started building my own. The cases I've seen on line tend to top out at about 25 cards and are very cookie cutter (you probably won't be able to fit tall boys or other variations in them) and I would be skeptical if they are using the best UV glass. From what I've been able to find it does not seem that UV glass degrades over time but there are for sure different qualities that block more or less of the UV spectrum. Here are a couple of links that I found useful.



http://abrisatechnologies.com/...ith-uv-blocking-glass/

http://tru-vue.com/solution/museum-glass/

http://www.groglass.com/product/Artglass-Protect-Museum