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Card storage
How does everyone keep their cards safe?
Do you consider the lifespan of pages to be an issue? I swapped out all my pages about 5 years or so aga as I was worried about the quality. Wonder if I should swap out again soemtime so they don't cause age issues. Anyone lose a good card to sun fading? Anyone find something that was BAD for cards (I lost cards to 3-ring binder dents)? Do you like cards in binders or protected in toploaders? or Snapdowns? Which binder gets grabbed in a fire? |
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Lynne Stewart wrote:
Which binder gets grabbed in a fire? Depends on what the firefighter is a fan of! :-) |
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I have consideed putting all my impossilbe to replace cards in one easy to
grab binder, but really hate to sacrafice the diplsaying of cards for paranoia... "Brian" wrote in message ... Lynne Stewart wrote: Which binder gets grabbed in a fire? Depends on what the firefighter is a fan of! :-) |
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For those that have a lot of cards (especially high level chase cards), this
is my solution to storage and protection of my collection: I place my cards in soft-sleeves with the top of the card going in first so that the opening of the soft sleeve is at the bottom of the card. Then I insert them into an Ultra-pro pages, so that they cards are pretty much sealed (the opening of the soft-sleeve is at the bottom of the ultra-pro pocket). The pages then go into binders, and I place my binders into a fire resistant safe. I purchased a Browning gun safe (Bridger model) which is fire resistant. The safe measures 5 feet tall, 2 feet wide and 18 inches deep. I built shelves for the inside of the safe to place my binders on. The safe is tall enough to house 4 rows of binders. I know the price tag might sound a bit steep, as the safe cost me around $1000, but I figured it was well worth it considering the alternatives, and it was going to cost me a couple hundred dollars anyway, for an unprotected rack or shelf system to house my collection. Dan Carleton "Lynne Stewart" wrote in message ... I have consideed putting all my impossilbe to replace cards in one easy to grab binder, but really hate to sacrafice the diplsaying of cards for paranoia... "Brian" wrote in message ... Lynne Stewart wrote: Which binder gets grabbed in a fire? Depends on what the firefighter is a fan of! :-) |
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Interesting, esp. since my my case, hubby does stamps, two for one
wrote in message news:eRTgd.346$Ak2.27@trndny02... For those that have a lot of cards (especially high level chase cards), this is my solution to storage and protection of my collection: I place my cards in soft-sleeves with the top of the card going in first so that the opening of the soft sleeve is at the bottom of the card. Then I insert them into an Ultra-pro pages, so that they cards are pretty much sealed (the opening of the soft-sleeve is at the bottom of the ultra-pro pocket). The pages then go into binders, and I place my binders into a fire resistant safe. I purchased a Browning gun safe (Bridger model) which is fire resistant. The safe measures 5 feet tall, 2 feet wide and 18 inches deep. I built shelves for the inside of the safe to place my binders on. The safe is tall enough to house 4 rows of binders. I know the price tag might sound a bit steep, as the safe cost me around $1000, but I figured it was well worth it considering the alternatives, and it was going to cost me a couple hundred dollars anyway, for an unprotected rack or shelf system to house my collection. Dan Carleton "Lynne Stewart" wrote in message ... I have consideed putting all my impossilbe to replace cards in one easy to grab binder, but really hate to sacrafice the diplsaying of cards for paranoia... "Brian" wrote in message ... Lynne Stewart wrote: Which binder gets grabbed in a fire? Depends on what the firefighter is a fan of! :-) |
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i just use the ultra-pro pages in normal binders for my standard cards and
other common sizes. my A4 sized uncut cards, sell sheets, foreign (generally cardboard) albums and other odd sized stuff is much more of a problem. some of them i can fit in comics sleeves, which i then place in a normal plastic A4 binder sleeve and then insert in the binder. i have also noticed the 'ring damage' problem, particularly for these odd shaped items that i also used to put in the front of the binder. the binders are stored in the bottom of a display cabinet where i keep my statues etc. i also collect comics, which take up a lot more space than cards. i have installed a compactus in the rumpus room and have some of that space devoted to my cards 'extras' (eg spares, things i have picked up that i actually don't collect etc). i really don't worry about fire etc. i don't know if it's the same elsewhere, but in australia any collection worth more than $3000 must be properly valued to be insured. as this is both difficult and expensive, i haven't bothered to insure my comics, cards etc. a thief would have to know what they were looking for to get anything valuable, and a fire would have to pretty much destroy the house - i would then be buying everything from scratch and, given the difficulty in finding a lot of this stuff in australia, i would probably focus my collecting better and not really worry about replacing what i had lost. jen "Lynne Stewart" wrote in message ... Interesting, esp. since my my case, hubby does stamps, two for one wrote in message news:eRTgd.346$Ak2.27@trndny02... For those that have a lot of cards (especially high level chase cards), this is my solution to storage and protection of my collection: I place my cards in soft-sleeves with the top of the card going in first so that the opening of the soft sleeve is at the bottom of the card. Then I insert them into an Ultra-pro pages, so that they cards are pretty much sealed (the opening of the soft-sleeve is at the bottom of the ultra-pro pocket). The pages then go into binders, and I place my binders into a fire resistant safe. I purchased a Browning gun safe (Bridger model) which is fire resistant. The safe measures 5 feet tall, 2 feet wide and 18 inches deep. I built shelves for the inside of the safe to place my binders on. The safe is tall enough to house 4 rows of binders. I know the price tag might sound a bit steep, as the safe cost me around $1000, but I figured it was well worth it considering the alternatives, and it was going to cost me a couple hundred dollars anyway, for an unprotected rack or shelf system to house my collection. Dan Carleton "Lynne Stewart" wrote in message ... I have consideed putting all my impossilbe to replace cards in one easy to grab binder, but really hate to sacrafice the diplsaying of cards for paranoia... "Brian" wrote in message ... Lynne Stewart wrote: Which binder gets grabbed in a fire? Depends on what the firefighter is a fan of! :-) |
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I generally use 4 'D' ring ringbinders and whatever 9 pocket pages I can get
that fit. I DO have some (not many) 'Official' set binders, but I can't afford to buy a new one every time there is a new set - besides, I picked up a load of binders at my local Office World (they were having a clearout sale just before they became Staples) 'High Value' chases get put in soft sleeves before being put into the pockets (except for some of the memorabilia cards which only just fit into the pockets, let alone a sleeve!) Au Res., Paul (Just off tot he Basildon SciFi show!) -- http://www.efbenson.co.uk/ http://www.paulbines.co.uk http://www.convergent-diversity.co.uk/ Blogs: http://paulbines.blogspot.com http://cardboardworld.blogspot.com/ |
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i use binders with 9 pocket pages
with 1 pocket pages in between with a mylar board to keep the pages firm , mostly for promo cards , and misc stuff..stickers , Etc.. I lik to replace any pages that get yellow or brittle , for sets i like using the clear plastic boxes they hold up well and don't cost much.. for singles i use 2500 count boxes for inserts and higher end cards , they all get toploaders , the costumes , sketches & autos all get screwdowns and sorted into 2500 count boxes I've also got around a dozen Rubbermaid Totes for carrying stuff to shows , and for storage around the house "Also for Fire Safety , an old refrigrator or upright freezer works real good in place of a gun safe" Kevin Kevin C. LePore 12 Sebastion Drive Rochester , New York U.S.A. 14625 http://community.webtv.net/kevinlepo...insComicsCards http://community.webtv.net/kevinlepore/KevinscardList |
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Interesting, I didn't know fridges were fireseafe
My coca-cola stash is safe "kevin le pore" wrote in message ... i use binders with 9 pocket pages with 1 pocket pages in between with a mylar board to keep the pages firm , mostly for promo cards , and misc stuff..stickers , Etc.. I lik to replace any pages that get yellow or brittle , for sets i like using the clear plastic boxes they hold up well and don't cost much.. for singles i use 2500 count boxes for inserts and higher end cards , they all get toploaders , the costumes , sketches & autos all get screwdowns and sorted into 2500 count boxes I've also got around a dozen Rubbermaid Totes for carrying stuff to shows , and for storage around the house "Also for Fire Safety , an old refrigrator or upright freezer works real good in place of a gun safe" Kevin Kevin C. LePore 12 Sebastion Drive Rochester , New York U.S.A. 14625 http://community.webtv.net/kevinlepo...insComicsCards http://community.webtv.net/kevinlepore/KevinscardList |
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Hi Lynne,
I store my cards in a variety of ways. Most all my commons get stored in 5,000 count boxes. Complete sets get stored in plastic boxes (at least all the ones that I am keeping, the rest also get stored in boxes). Chase are split: More common chase get stored in plastic pages in binders. More rare chase get stored in top loaders. Then all of them are stored in a metal storage locker in my garage. Its cool in their all year long and I don't have to worry about sun damage. The only thing I have found that was bad for cards was handling them. I try to do as little as possible of that. Barry Lynne Stewart wrote: How does everyone keep their cards safe? Do you consider the lifespan of pages to be an issue? I swapped out all my pages about 5 years or so aga as I was worried about the quality. Wonder if I should swap out again soemtime so they don't cause age issues. Anyone lose a good card to sun fading? Anyone find something that was BAD for cards (I lost cards to 3-ring binder dents)? Do you like cards in binders or protected in toploaders? or Snapdowns? Which binder gets grabbed in a fire? |
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