Top Loader vs Card Saver for vintage?

[jchcollins]

Originally Posted by jingram058

I think it far less likely to damage cards in mylar pocket sheets than with either top loaders or card savers; I am not a big fan of either and never have been.

My only experience with Mylar and it was extremely difficult to get the cards into sheets that were way more rigid than I expected. The HOF and other archivists use Mylar because they expect the cards to last for another thousand plus years. Selfishly, I need mine to be preserved archivally for only about the next 50 or 60 years…

In all seriousness, while poly sleeves and toploaders might not be as inert a material as Mylar, they are still considered archival quality.

[homerunhitter]

What boxes do you guys use to store card savers in? The monster boxes only fit top loaders.

[Gorditadogg]

Originally Posted by homerunhitter

What boxes do you guys use to store card savers in? The monster boxes only fit top loaders.

I use the shoe boxes for graded cards. I put my PSA cards in front and the card savers behind them.

[homerunhitter]

Thank you!!!

[steve B]

Originally Posted by jchcollins

My only experience with Mylar and it was extremely difficult to get the cards into sheets that were way more rigid than I expected. The HOF and other archivists use Mylar because they expect the cards to last for another thousand plus years. Selfishly, I need mine to be preserved archivally for only about the next 50 or 60 years…

In all seriousness, while poly sleeves and toploaders might not be as inert a material as Mylar, they are still considered archival quality.

I would mostly agree on poly sleeves, but not toploaders.
I just added a few cards to sets I hadn't bothered with for several years, and had many I had to replace the toploaders on. It may be that they picked up something from the cadboard shoebox size storage boxes, but the boxes seem to be fine.
The cards inside them were also fine, so maybe archival in a sacrificial way?
I'll still use toploaders, I think the new ones may be better.