Card holder for gravestone?

[Vintage Vern]

Does anyone know of a holder that would be good for this application?

[RCMcKenzie]

Pardon my ignorance, is this satire, or is there some modern subset that is referred to as "gravestone", like "Heritage" or "Sparkling Ice"?

[HexsHeroes]

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I suppose it depends on several factors such as whether displaying/attaching to a vertical monument or horizontal flat stone, whether free standing or to be attached, need for UV protection, etc.

That said, I am not aware of a specific product for this purpose but image something acceptable using available products could be constructed.

I have encountered gravesites where both a child’s personal sports card, or the deceased favorite ball player pictured on a sports card have been displayed. But none using a product specifically marketed for that purpose.

[Vintage Vern]

Originally Posted by RCMcKenzie

Pardon my ignorance, is this satire, or is there some modern subset that is referred to as "gravestone", like "Heritage" or "Sparkling Ice"?

Nope. . Serious question. I'm trying to find something that is weather tight, and UV resistant if it exists? I'm wanting to put a card on a headstone or monument.

[Snapolit1]

Originally Posted by Vintage Vern

Nope. . Serious question. I'm trying to find something that is weather tight, and UV resistant if it exists? I'm wanting to put a card on a headstone or monument.

Ask a gravestone company located near the closest cemetary. Increasingly stones have color photos and the like embedded, all of which are done in a way that they seemingly withstand the elements. This doesn't seem like it would be difficult. But, no, PSA is not yet marketing the Eternal Card Holder.

[steve B]

I can't think of any pretty solution.

The closest I can get is a penny sleeve into an upside down toploader with some split tubing around the outside for weather protection. Or maybe copper foil like some stained glass uses?

Holding it onto the stone would be the challenge. If they allow construction adhesive that might work. But unless the toploaders are better now, it will need to be changed out every few years.

Polycarbonate- lexan- blocks a lot of UV, and a couple pieces with a gasket, and foiled around the outside could also work. With the same difficulty in attaching.

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

Yep, they've been doing this for a long time with photos; I'd think 100 years or more. I recently saw an episode of "Finding Your Roots". David Duchovny's grandmother died in the early 1930's. A photo was added to her headstone at that time, and it still looks good today.

While this goes against a collectability perspective, strong lamination in one form or another would be the best preserver against the elements if the card is just going to stay there forever. Just visit your nearest monument seller. They will know what to do for you.

[DHogan]

Some old gravestones had pictures made of ceramic photos. I saw some on a website for gravestone companies that still make them.

[HexsHeroes]

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One of the local cemeteries has a child's grave in which someone used one of those garden/plant stakes that allows placing seed envelope in top pouch. The stake and pouch are all metal, and the pouch only allows displaying the front of the seed envelope. But whomever placed it inserted an acrylic snaptite holder containing the child's personal baseball card into the pouch instead of seed envelope.

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

Originally Posted by DHogan

Some old gravestones had pictures made of ceramic photos. I saw some on a website for gravestone companies that still make them.

Good point. I believe the one I referenced on the Duchovny headstone was of this variety.

[Yoda]

Hope you are feeling ok.

[RCMcKenzie]

Originally Posted by Vintage Vern

Nope. . Serious question. I'm trying to find something that is weather tight, and UV resistant if it exists? I'm wanting to put a card on a headstone or monument.

Oh, I see now, I'm sure they make some sort of outdoor acrylic holders. Good luck with it.

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

Originally Posted by Yoda

Hope you are feeling ok.

Funny, I had a feeling he wanted to add a card to Clemons' headstone. Funny how one person jumps to an entirely different conclusion from another.

[CardPadre]

Ultra pro has some thick 1/2 and 1 inch lucite brick screwdowns with UV protection. Maybe add a little silicone caulking to the seams for full weatherproofing?

[packs]

Does it have to be the actual card? Probably a company out there who can do a high quality engraving or enameling to reproduce the card image.

[G1911]

Originally Posted by packs

Does it have to be the actual card? Probably a company out there who can do a high quality engraving or enameling to reproduce the card image.

If you want a baseball card on your tombstone, I would do this while commissioning it. That seems the most sensible way to accomplish if it is how one wants to be memorialized.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Judging by prices on ebay, myslabs and other venues, it seems many people these days must want to be buried with their cards. There may be a market for coffins specially fitted to accommodate cards.

[Eric72]

Originally Posted by Snapolit1

...no, PSA is not yet marketing the Eternal Card Holder.

Of course not. How would they ever get people to re-sub anything?

[Vintage Vern]

Originally Posted by BillyCoxDodgers3B

Funny, I had a feeling he wanted to add a card to Clemons' headstone. Funny how one person jumps to an entirely different conclusion from another.

Close. Its actually his parents. Verne is resting in Florida. Me I'm gonna do the burn me, and dump me. After 1 or 2 generations no one cares anymore.

[Casey2296]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

Judging by prices on ebay, myslabs and other venues, it seems many people these days must want to be buried with their cards. There may be a market for coffins specially fitted to accommodate cards.

Turns out you can take it with you...
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[Huck]

Originally Posted by Snapolit1

Ask a gravestone company located near the closest cemetary. Increasingly stones have color photos and the like embedded, all of which are done in a way that they seemingly withstand the elements. This doesn't seem like it would be difficult. But, no, PSA is not yet marketing the Eternal Card Holder.

That made me laugh out loud.

[G1911]

I plan to be buried in a mausoleum stuffed with cigarette cards. The unique pieces in my collection will be stapled to my casket itself, on an altar built out of Mecca boxing cards.