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Originally Posted by steve B
I have a small collection of card collecting supplies.
What I haven't been good at is writing down about when they came out.
I think your recalling of them being an 86/87 thing is very close.
If I find some old magazines, I'll see if I can find ads.
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I remember as a kid along about 1987 that toploaders were a thing, but don't remember them being labeled for sale in packs or anything. For example if you bought a somewhat expensive vintage card in a shop (I begged and eventually got my mom to buy me a nice '66 Koufax that year) - it would be in a toploader. No penny sleeves, those came later. Even more expensive cards would be in all manner of screw-down cases; there were a lot back then. As I mentioned, pages and binders were all the rage back then, and I think even if a kid was not a set collector - it was just assumed that you would buy pages and devise an order and make it work. I did thusly, as that's what all my friends were doing at the time.
I do see in some of these early BBCM magazines what look like "individual" card holders, some with stands and stuff like that - but even for the ones that don't have those, I'm thinking the pricing (75 cents per?) means that these were not toploaders as we know them today.
I am just looking for baseline information like the first patent. I wonder if that was UltraPro (who seems to make most of them today...) or someone else?