card saving inception dates?

[trdcrdkid]

Originally Posted by btcarfagno

Remember these?



I think I got mine directly from Topps. It opened up and there were slots to put the cards inside in team order. Also came with stickers with the names of the teams. This thing was "it" in my life at the time. I had hit the big time when this bad boy arrived.

We had those in the mid-to-late '70s.

[Mdmtx]

I got one of those boxes from an offer on a topps wrapper for my 1976 football cards

[glynparson]

Peter is correct in 1988 it was in Copeland's collection. Was on the Wal Mart tour for its eventual giveaway in 1995.

[steve B]

I bought the first 9 pocket pages I saw in 1974, there was a small binder with the team logos on it too. Really poor pages, almost no extra room, and while it was sideload two of the columns loaded right next to each other so the cards could slide out and get creased on the other card.

First screwdown I saw was a sample the local shop got. Very nice, plastic screws and an insert so the card didn't get clamped in the holder. Almost like a slab, but with screws.

The next were folded over lexan. Pinched the cards on one end, but they were pretty secure. There was a batch of fairly nice commercially made ones than later someone I think local to Boston did a lot of homemade ones that weren't all that nice.

One of the things I need to scan is the big "collection" of card storage supplies I have since I didn't get rid of any.

Steve B

[begsu1013]

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[trdcrdkid]

Originally Posted by begsu1013

was there a monumental sale of a wagner in 87/88? (not that all of them aren't)

1988 was when Jim Copeland bought the "Nr-Mt" Wagner (after Mastro trimmed it). He then sold it to Gretzky and McNall in 1991, at which time PSA graded it (the first card they ever graded). They then sold it to Wal-Mart in 1995, I think.

[Exhibitman]

We used various photo albums in the mid-1970s. There were albums with plastic pages that were pretty decent at protecting the cards. Not quite sure when the formal card pages came into use as I dropped out of the hobby from 1981 through 1988 or so. I know that by 1988 when I went to a show for the first time in years there were a ton of products.

[vintagesportscollector]

Here's my 'card locker' from the '70s. Just pulled it out of the attic . Still filled with a '74 Topps set, sorted by team.

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