T206 holders question

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Posted By: John D 

I like to keep my HOFers in 3 by 5 un-recessed lucite holders. This puts some gentle pressure on the cards to keep them in place. Can this cause damage to the card over time? Has anyone experienced any problems associated with this? I like the way they look, but protecting my cards is the priority. Any advice is greatly appreciated. Thanks for the previous thread on instruction on how to safely crack open PSA holders. I have a nice(undergraded) Matty Portrait that I plan to "liberate". Thanks to all.

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Posted By: jay behrens

holders like apply pressure at the corners which, over time, will flatten the corners. You are much better off with a recessed holder with a design similar to the cutouts that SGC puts in their holders to keep a card in place.

Jay

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Posted By: Anonymous

Thanks Jay, Do you or anyone else know where to get good recessed holders made for T206s. Is there a website? Thanks to all

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Posted By: warshawlaw

As pointed out, the holders put pressure on the corners. I'v had two forms of damage:

(1) If there are any specks of dirt, dust, etc. on the holder, the pressure can embed them into the card. I had a very high end 1950's HOFer card (can't recall which one now) that had a speck of black dirt embedded into a white border that way. When I carefully removed the speck, I had a permanent divot in the border.

(2) If the card has thicker stock, the uneven pressure can put hairline creases into the card over time. Had a beautiful Hank Greenberg develop "wrinkles" from this.

My advice: if you are holdering the cards for your own use, just send them to SGC and have them slabbed. The protection is great and they look really good in the holders (I will probably submit my entire T206 collection one day, when I am truly bored and they have a good special running).

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Posted By: John D

Thanks very much. I have never sent cards to a grading co., but PSA makes me nervous and seems expensive. Do you have better service from SGC? I do intend to keep them forever. Thanks again.

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Posted By: leon

SGC has the best experience and is best at vintage cards that most of us collect. If you were ONLY selling them, and they were post WWII, I might send them to PSA to get a little more money. PSA generally sucks bad at grading older stuff....just ask HAL how his Delehanty did with PSA? They just don't understand the cards.....regards all

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Posted By: Brian Hodes

I used to keep all of my T205s in these special recessed holders for T-cards that snapped shut. I think I paid about $1.50 per holder. Anyway, I have several extras now I would be glad to part with for $1 each. (Elliot has one of the holders if you want another opinion).
If anyone's interested please email me.

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Posted By: dan mckee PSA lover

Mail your cards to PSA and roll the dice of them surviving from the package being opened til they are logged in the computer! Customer service at its best! They will tell you for a week not to worry, they will log it eventually, then they will tell the Better Business bureau that they log all submissions immediately. I can't wait for court!

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Posted By: Hankron

Just recently, I had a Danish friend visit and showed her some of the memorabilia I have. What she found the most fastinating was not any piece of memorabilia, but the 20 cent top loaders that some of the cards were held in.