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Who invented card holders and what year?
italianstallionyankees
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I can't find my question anywhere anybody know this answer?? Thanks
1938 Cartledge Boxing cards psa 7 - psa 10
1951 Topps Red backs psa 8 only!
1960 Golden Press Presidential set Psa 8 's - Psa 9's
1961 Golden Press psa 9's
1976 Topps baseball psa 9 Stars
1980 Kelloggs baseball Psa 9's - Psa 10's
1988-1989 Fleer Basketball psa 9's
1988-1989 Fleer Stickers psa 9's
1989-1990 Fleer Basketball psa 10's
1992 Coca-Cola Donruss Nolan Ryan 1-26 Psa 10 only Gpa 9.80++ E-mail Newyork00007@aol.com
1951 Topps Red backs psa 8 only!
1960 Golden Press Presidential set Psa 8 's - Psa 9's
1961 Golden Press psa 9's
1976 Topps baseball psa 9 Stars
1980 Kelloggs baseball Psa 9's - Psa 10's
1988-1989 Fleer Basketball psa 9's
1988-1989 Fleer Stickers psa 9's
1989-1990 Fleer Basketball psa 10's
1992 Coca-Cola Donruss Nolan Ryan 1-26 Psa 10 only Gpa 9.80++ E-mail Newyork00007@aol.com
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<< <i>According to Carboard Gold's site, Card Savers have been around since 1986 >>
Even if Card Savers came out in 1986, there was a similar type of semi-rigid holder I got with a hobby collecting kit around 1983 (the same kit that had those reprints of Wagner, Plank and Magie T206s, a T207 Lewis and the Goudey LaJoie). It didn't have the brand name on it, and I'm willing to say the plastic card holders much like what we now know as Card Savers have likely been around since at least the late 1970s.
Just went and pulled out my "Guide to Baseball Card Collecting" from that hobby kit (yes, I still have the book). It's copyrighted 1982 by Hygrade Sports Cards Co. and has a NYC address. On page 12 is "Tools of the Collector" and a plastic/vinyl card holder is shown there.
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Just went and pulled out my "Guide to Baseball Card Collecting" from that hobby kit (yes, I still have the book). It's copyrighted 1982 by Hygrade Sports Cards Co. and has a NYC address. On page 12 is "Tools of the Collector" and a plastic/vinyl card holder is shown there. >>
Man that brings back some memories.
Bosox1976
Sam
Just before that i remember seeing pages for the first time.
Steve
1951 Topps Red backs psa 8 only!
1960 Golden Press Presidential set Psa 8 's - Psa 9's
1961 Golden Press psa 9's
1976 Topps baseball psa 9 Stars
1980 Kelloggs baseball Psa 9's - Psa 10's
1988-1989 Fleer Basketball psa 9's
1988-1989 Fleer Stickers psa 9's
1989-1990 Fleer Basketball psa 10's
1992 Coca-Cola Donruss Nolan Ryan 1-26 Psa 10 only Gpa 9.80++ E-mail Newyork00007@aol.com
Of course they were. All this plastic stuff for containing cards came from the coin collectors/dealers
It really took off in the early 80's with just about everything you have now being used.
Back to condition, sellers of stamps and coins and cards (and whatever else you can think of) were always concerned with condition.
The better the condition, the higher the price. Even if it was only a dollar difference.
Steve
<< <i>I think Al Gore invented them as a side project while working on the internet!!! >>
Someone beat me to it
<< <i>I did it in the parlor room with a rope. >>
Didn't that hurt?
1994 Pro Line Live
TheDallasCowboyBackfieldProject
<< <i>Thanks , I'm trying to figure out when it really started to be popular . Being not in my thirties I am unaware of how cards were handled in the late 1970's and early 1980's. Were dealers back in the late 1970's worried about condition and preserving cards? Thanks again >>
Speaking with a true "old school" collector (back from the time when cards were kids' stuff and people looked funny at any collector over 14), I was told that some adult collectors used small file cabinets that looked a lot like the old card catalogs in libraries. They'd use 3x5 index cards to separate the sets/subjects.
Another old-school collector (Lionel Carter, who recently passed away) kept his collection in binders, using hinges on the corners to hold them in place. This was a lot better on the cards than what Jefferson Burdick (the guy who wrote the American Card Catalog and named the sets we now know as T206, e95, etc.): when he donated his collection to the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, he physically pasted each card into a scrapbook. However, Carter was very specific about keeping his cards in good shape and Burdick had a philosophy that said the subjects on the cards were more important than how they presented.
I just realized...if you're not yet in your 30s...you may not have actually used a card catalog at the library that wasn't part of a computer database.
Vintage Cards Specialist/Hobby Historian
Vintage Baseball Cards website:
http://www.obaks.com/vintagebaseballcards/index.html
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<< <i>I did it in the parlor room with a rope. >>
Didn't that hurt? >>
Now that's funny.
mike
The only ad I found was for high quality album pages with precut slots for cards.
mike