card saving inception dates?

[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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[glchen]

I have one of those Sport Lockers too that I got in the 80s! I have a bunch of worthless 87 Topps inside!

I thought that top loaders were available around 1984 already? My "prized" 1984 Donruss Mattingly I purchased around that time in a card shop already in a top loader.

[glynparson]

bought many cards in those single piece of hard plastic open on three sides one curved edge. barely separated to slide card into. they also made them so they could stand up. many of the rookie cards i bought back then were in these types of holders

[begsu1013]

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[goudey1933]

1975 was the 1st year I remember 9 sleeve plastic pages.The toy store I bought my rack packs had them.Around 1977 I remember buying pages for t cards from a hobby paper.
scott

[ullmandds]

When I collected mid 70's-early 80's...I put the good stuff in 9 pocket plastic sheets in office type binders. The rest was in boxes.

At shows you'd see the really valuable cards in thick plastic tombs. I never owned one of those!!!!

I also must have missed the "revolution" in card protection while on a hiatus as when i returned in 89' or so...at which time my vintage collection was stored in top loaders eventually with penny sleeves as well.

[Rookiemonster]

By the time I started collecting all this stuff already existed. But in 1992 I remember the first time I seen a penny sleeve in a top loader. I've never looked back lol.

[sycks22]

I remember a show in Raleigh a couple years back when this dealer had a beat up Banks rookie in the largest screw down case known to man. It even came with it's own zip up bag. I asked him about the price just for kicks, he said he'd let it go for $800 and assured me it was Banks rookie card. I got a good chuckle.

[Section103]

Originally Posted by 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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I had that EXACT case. Then I went low-tech and used Nike shoe boxes for the inevitable overflow of cards.

[JTysver]

Moving on to the Cards in Spokes- I remember doing that in 1973. I think it went out of fashion as skateboards started replacing bikes.

[steve B]

Originally Posted by JTysver

Moving on to the Cards in Spokes- I remember doing that in 1973. I think it went out of fashion as skateboards started replacing bikes.

I do some work for a bike shop, a few years ago I rebuilt a bike for a customer who mentioned the card in the spokes as a happy memory.

So I picked up a few old fashioned clothespins, the spring kind (That's what we used, there's other ways too ) And put a card on for her. Plus supplied a handful of cards for when that one wore out or went missing.

Best thing I've ever done with slightly worn 80's commons.

Steve B