Storing Cards in a Lockbox... Advice Please!

[M's_Fan]

Get a fire-proof safe and store it all at home, you can look at them any time you want. My $.02

[vintagetoppsguy]

Originally Posted by M's_Fan

Get a fire-proof safe and store it all at home, you can look at them any time you want. My $.02

That's what I did. Bought a Superior (made by Champion) gun safe. It's approx 5' high, 3' wide and 2' deep. The fire rating is 1500 degrees for 60 minutes. It has 14 locking bolts and weighs 800 lbs. so nobody will be carting it off.

[CardTarget]

Guns and Cards together at last...

[Leon]

Originally Posted by M's_Fan

Get a fire-proof safe and store it all at home, you can look at them any time you want. My $.02

I have a 1200 pound jewelers safe which has a monitored alarm at home. However, my concern was a fire (plastic tends to melt) or worse yet, some yaahoo knowing I have cards and coming to my door with a gun. I feel so much better spending $8 a month for my large safe deposit box. I still have a lot of my less valuable stuff at home....And I have a nice website with most of my cards on it to look at. To each their own though.....Whatever makes ya' sleep good at night is what you should do. Happy collecting. regards

[mdschulze]

I have a fire proof safe at the house but my homeowner's insurance only covers collectibles up to $2500... they'll jump to $5k if you itemize everything, take photos, then submit to them for their records. My wife just inherited about $4k in crystal figurines that are now on display in the dang china cabinet I had to buy her. So, I figured I'd take any card valued over $500 and put them in the lockbox, along with my coins, and leave everything else in the safe at home. My insurance agent has helped me out in the past but now we need to just get some of the smaller, more valuable items off the premises.

[brass_rat]

Originally Posted by Leon

Isome yaahoo knowing I have cards and coming to my door with a gun.

Leon, that's why you have to answer the door with a gun.

[Ease]

Originally Posted by brass_rat

Leon, that's why you have to answer the door with a gun.

Reminds me of this scene from Godfather II

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