Best Holder for cards

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Posted By: Justin Brooks

I was wondering , in your opinions, what is the best holders for cards. Im looking to complete some post 1950 sets. The more expensive cards, i will have PSA graded, so thats easy, whats the best idea for the rest of the set(s)? Albums? Boxes? individuals?

what do you guys do?

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Posted By: Jason L

just email me and I can tell you where to ship them!

honestly, I have used boxes, historically, with the exception being albums for my favorite sets that I find myself looking at more often

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Posted By: davidcycleback

Hard to beat top loader and penny sleeves. If a set is is less expensive and lower condition than deserving that treatment, those less rigid holders are good-- forget their name.

Card boxes can store sets very well over a long time. Have always been wary of albums though, unless the cards are low grade. Album pages bend and I've had cards stick.

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Posted By: Paul S

I'm a penny sleeve and toploader person myself, for the more "precious" of my cards, or for older post-war in general. For others I put them in penny sleeves. Everything is then put in a card box. Like David, I'm wary of plastic binder sleeves, although I actually do have some that way (I put them into penny sleeves first) -- still, I'm thinking of scrapping that method altogether.

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Posted By: Mark

Agreed on the penny sleeve and semi-rigid holder. But if the card is worth more than $100 in my collection, it goes to Beckett for grading.

I won't buy a card graded by anyone but Beckett BGS/BVG either. Too much fraud going on with weak PSA and SGC holders on Ebay...

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Posted By: boxingcardman

I use Unikeep's clamshell all polypropylene albums. I use 4-pocket sheets to hold the card savers. It takes 3-4 albums to hold a larger set but I love the way they display, they are quite secure for browsing, and the albums take up very little space compared with standard albums because there isn't a thick ring system and oversized flaps to bulk it out.

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Posted By: Jason L

certainly beats my bicycle spokes from when I was younger!

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Posted By: Paul S

certainly beats my bicycle spokes from when I was younger!

No kidding! I was totally pissed when I found out my mom had thrown out my old bicycle. Ya know how many 62T Berras I had in those spokes?!
Seriously, my earliest childhood card memory is me and my friends pulling so many 62 Berras out of packs that we chose them to put in our spokes.

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Posted By: boxingcardman

I used to use this system, tightly packed in boxes. My collection rode out the 1994 Northridge earthquake without any damage that way. However, as I've migrated the cards out of the toploaders and into card savers I have found a few cards with hairline vertical creases at their tops from where the openings of the top loaders bow. I'd not recommend using them.

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Posted By: boxingcardman

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Posted By: Paul S

Thanks, that's good to know. I better think of something else. You're just referring to post-war size, I imagine. My vintage survived a previous earthquake there that was centered in Newhall/Saugus/Valencia area, about 1969-70 or so. I had them in a cardboard cigar box, no sleeves, no toploader, or nuttin'! Maybe best to go back to that

btw -- I still have the cigar box, in case anyone wants to see a scan!