Conference school::sports_memorabilia

    
    Personally I don't collect sets, I collect the players and sport (bb)
    I'm interested in and only 9 cards (1 sheet) ea of those players.
    I had to decide what type of cards would make up the 9. I decided on
    Std Clb, Leaf, and U.D.. So my album would consist of 3 '89ud Griffey,
    3 '91 std clb, and 3 '90/'91 leaf. There are some potential rookies,
    Van popple, Bagwell, Plantier, and Vaughn ect.. I do keep the older 
    cards such as the '72 Mays, Aaron, Carew, '70 fb Namath, Sayers, ect
    in the hard plastic holders. Those stay in a box and I find that I 
    enjoy the album a little more simply because they are more accessible.
    Everything else for sale and only half the money raised at shows goes
    back into more cards. I generally use the card saver II's for any card
    valued at $2 and up, and I use the soft sleeves for everything else.
    	I've also found that the soft sleeves are better for the Std Clb
    cards because they dont stick in the sleeve like they do in the cards
    savers.
    
    
    Jim

    Jared and I keep ours like this:
    
    Non-Sports		Binders
    Expensive sets	Binders (Stadium, O-Pee-Chee Premier, etc)
    Less Expensive sets	600 or 800 count boxes (Topps, Donruss, etc.)
    Duplicates		Monster boxes
    
    Favorite players	Rigid Plastics (Seaver, N.Ryan, R.Henderson, etc.)
    
    I have 1 card in a screw down.  It is Tom Seaver's second year card in
    near mint condition.  And noooooo it's not up for grabs.
    
    nance (Jared's mom)

	The cards I like to look at a lot, I keep them in the 9 pocket
	plastic pages inside a 3 ring binder, and I include the wrapper
	for that particular card. If I have more than one set, I keep 
	the second or third set either in a cardboard box or a plastic 
	case holder, with the wrapper on the outside to identify the set.

	The cards I don't look at that much, I keep them in the 800 count
	cardboard boxes, or whatever size box they fit in.

	The valuable cards and some Holograms I really like, I keep them 
	in the hard rigid plastic holders, either screwdown or the snap down
	type.  I have been leaning toward the snap down kind lately,
	because they are so much easier to open and close, and because
	I had trouble with the screwdown type holder, where the screws
	stripped off the threads in the plastic, and were useless, and
	the screws are also kind of small and you can lose them very
	easily.

	I use the monster boxes to store duplicate cards.  I don't separate
	the commons from the stars, they all go together in the same box.
	However, I also use the plastic case holders to store small sets or
	when I don't have that many duplicates of any one set.

	I keep the unopened 36 count vendor boxes wrapped in an additional
	plastic bag to protect the box itself from scratches, dents, etc.

	As you all know by now (I hope), you should keep your cards in a
	place where the temperature doesn't fluctuate much, so the attic
	in your house is not a good place for them.  I was talking to a
	neighbor that collects cards, and she said she keeps them in the
	attic.  I promptly told her that was the worst place for the cards.

    
    I liked having sets in the plastic pages for looking at them,
    but have since removed nearly all of them and now keep my sets
    in whatever size box is appropriate.  Why?  The smell that even
    the non-PVC pages have gets into the cardboard.  Remove a card
    and smell it for yourself, this can not be good for the long
    term condition of one's cards.  I have my redskins collection in
    plastic pages which I got in a purchase of an 88 topps set that came
    in a binder of pages.  These pages are the stiched kind, have
    no smell and are slightly wider than most other pages so it is
    easy to slide cards in and out.  I have not been able to find anything
    like these pages anywhere.  These are also the type pages that are
    slightly "cloudy" vs. being completely clear. 
    
    Why do so many brands of pages have the smell??
    
    Has anyone located a source for pages similar to what i've described?
    (top loading, slightly wider, prefer stiched, non-PVC, with no smell)
    
    jeff
    
    

    
    I believe those are Enor sheets Jeff.
    
    I very much prefer the Enor sheets.
    
    I have my Perez-Steele postcards in those sheets.  Okay, the P-S
    cards that are unautographed!
    
    After seeing what plastic sheets did to a friend's autographed
    8x10 pictures, I wouldn't trust anything autographed inside the
    plastic sheets.
    
    My autographed cards/post-cards, etc., I keep in semi-rigids.
    
    -rjk

    I've got to end my self enforced silence:
    I store my cards in a warehouse.  

    	Mike,
    
    	The reason is that if you didn't, you'd be sleeping in
    	a warehous 8^)
    
    	Newc