Top Loader vs Card Saver for vintage?

[homerunhitter]

Awesome. Thank you! I will have to get some of those. Do you guys put the card saver in a team set bag or sleeve or just straight in the box? Thanks

[wdwfan]

I'm a strictly raw collector. Nothing graded. And here's what I use.

All of my sets go into binders. The older sets go into penny sleeves then pages. That's everything from a 5 cent common to a Mantle or Rose RC. Everything in penny, then pages then binder.

As far as my extras, I put all of my stars and HOFers into penny and toploader. All others go into penny sleeves and all of my extras are sorted by years. The stars/HOFers are sorted alphabetically by player.

[Mike D.]

I use top loaders with penny sleeves inside for storing valuable raw cards. I just don't feel that card savers are rigid enough to provide a lot of protection.

[jingram058]

Originally Posted by wdwfan

I'm a strictly raw collector. Nothing graded. And here's what I use.

All of my sets go into binders. The older sets go into penny sleeves then pages. That's everything from a 5 cent common to a Mantle or Rose RC. Everything in penny, then pages then binder.

As far as my extras, I put all of my stars and HOFers into penny and toploader. All others go into penny sleeves and all of my extras are sorted by years. The stars/HOFers are sorted alphabetically by player.

+1 I keep mine exactly like how you keep yours.

[G1911]

All my post war vintage is stored raw in 2,000 count boxes. From Al Corwin to Mickey Mantle, none are penny sleeved, top loaded or card savered. I used to use top loaders and binders, but top loaders just take up so much space when we’re talking thousands and thousands of cards. Binders stopped working for me once I started collecting printing variants with my sets - making it a constant growth every year without a predefined checklist to be able to slot cards into correct order in a binder. Didn’t feel like resorting them in the binder, removing every card again, every time I got a new defect or variant. I’m happy with my new way.