Posted By:
Ted ZanidakisI have placed paper separators between plastic sheets since Bob Lemke wrote an article in the BaseBall Cards magazine (1981) on
the dangers of long-term storage of BB cards in PVC type plastic pages. Many scoffed at him back then....but, I saw the affects of
this problem a few years later. Several cards (5) in my 1953 Bowman color set were starting to exhibit the affects of this plastic in-
teracting with the pictures on the fronts of these cards. Fortunately, it wasn't any of the star cards. This was around 1986, and I
immediately removed all my Sports cards from their plastic sheets.
That was then......now we have mylar-quality plastic to arrange our cards in. For my better sets, I use high quality mylar pages to
store my sports cards in. But, I still insert paper separators between the plastic sheets.....I guess I'm just a creature of habit.
Thanks for asking,
TED Z