Wall-mouted card displays

parkerj · August 14, 2009 3:52AM

Over the years i have seen quite a few different ideas posted here in threads regarding wall displays of your collections.

I have recently moved and have my own office and am planning to use one whole wall to display rows and rows of my hall of famer baseball cards. Most all of them will be raw but will be in top loaders. I have the idea that i just need a strip of wood or something to rest the bottom of the loader against and then lean it to the wall. I do not want to enclose it all in glass display cabinet or anything quite that fancy.

I am posting this as a query for any input on what any of you have done, or what you have found works best.

Thanks in advance for your responses.

EB22 · August 14, 2009 4:08AM

If there will be cards of big value, I would say don't do it. As time goes by, the light will damage the color of the cards. Really, I wouldn't put no vintage cards in light. If you still want to hang them up, then I would suggest a very dim light and try not to leave it on for long periods of time, and block those windows, never let in that beautifull sun on the cards.

Sounds like a good idea and I would love to do it myself, but the cards getting damaged is not worth it to me, so thats why I got them all in boxes and never see too much light and when they do, its in a room with a very dim light, especially with autographs, because they will fade overtime. Sun light is out of the question...

Good luck!

mrmint23 · August 14, 2009 4:24AM

Pictures of my home office. It only has 1 window with blinds closed all the time. Double sided tape holds the cards to the board.

parkerj · August 14, 2009 4:26AM

Thanks for the input, they won't be super high value, nothing worth more that $50. But is it only the UV that is to be worried about? if so, then i could mitigate that somewhat via other methods. The office has a window but its mostly blocked by trees so no direct sunlight comes in, and the lights are off there most of the time.

EB22 · August 14, 2009 4:34AM

That is a nice office, wouldn't mind an office like myself!

I would do my best to block that window, because direct sub light is the worst for cards, and use an appropriate light bolb. I'm not too sure which would be best, but don't get the brightest bolb, thats for sure. I'm sure some pros out there would know which light is best to use, but I couldn't tell ya, but I don't think no light is good if used for long periods of time anyway, so just be carefull, but enjoy your room, and always protect those cards when you can...

Stone193 · August 14, 2009 4:42AM

I agree about the displaying of cards - but for that matter anything that goes on the wall has to be protected from destructive UV light.

Very nice Mr M - how big is your office? I'm not sure with mine - probably about 11X14? Wish it were bigger so I have more wall space.

Toughest thing for me - I have way too many games to ever display them!

mike

Dboneesq · August 14, 2009 4:43AM

Kirk,

Very nice set-up in your home office. BTW ... it's nice to see that you were on these boards when you took that picture! LOL.

BigRedMachine · August 14, 2009 4:46AM

I bought some 1X6 and some 3/4" outside corners. I brought the outside corner out enough from the bottom to fit a psa case, you would need less room for non graded. Brad nailed it to the bottom, took no time at all.

Sorry for the crappy cell phone pic, but here's the idea.

EB22 · August 14, 2009 4:48AM

<< <i>it's nice to see that you were on these boards when you took that picture! LOL. >>

Good eye!

mrmint23 · August 14, 2009 4:51AM

I custom built this house back in 2004. It has 5 bedrooms and my wife stuck my office in the smallest room 12x14. I bought my cases at Hobby Lobby for around $25. The big one came off Ebay for around 50. The cases open from the front so I continuously change the cards.

parkerj · August 14, 2009 5:03AM

Bigred, that is sort of what i had in mind, something like that...although i'm not sure i need the 1x6 backing. The only downside is that you kid of clip off the bottom of the card because of the lip on the edging. Maybe i can just put up some 1x2 and route a groove in the bottom of it for the edge to sit in.

Mr. Mint, nice office. mine is about 11 x 13.

My idea is to have all of the hof-ers in my collection 1970-1990 displayed....with a horizontal row being one player and the vertical rows being different years.

so if you look top to bottom, you see multiple cards for one year, and if you follow it horizontally you see the same player over many years.
Say hank aaron ends in 76. skip a space and start the eddie murray or paul molitor collection in the 78 slot. Ultimately i will add to it 1952-1969 hofers.

Alternatively, i could do the years horizontal and the players in alphabetical order.

pdub1819 · August 14, 2009 1:53PM

Did you see all the links at the top and bottom of this page? I was planning that when I finally get my own home office that I wanted to get a desk that has a glass top with space underneath to show off your cards, etc. I saw one in person once that had my friends gun collection underneath the glass.

csmtampa · August 14, 2009 1:57PM

MrMint - what's your address again?

J/K Nice display!!!!

Wall-mouted card displays

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