Discussion of old storage supplies.

It might be fun to collect defunct coin holders if there
are enough of them and source for them. How many
defunct holders got chucked when the coin was
put into a soft flip to get slabbed? You could even get
product names from old issues of Numismatic Scrapbook
since they were mostly ads anyway.

 

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I wouldn't go that far...but I would like to know when cardboard 2x2s 1st came out.

A lot of the holders were thrown away after so long. They can fall apart over the years.

 

I believe the mylar 2x2's were preceded by something
called Kodar.

 

I was thinking about the plastic holders.

 

Sure your not thinking about the old school photo slides made by kodak?

 

David Lange of NGC has quite a collection of the coin boards from the 30's & 40's. I believe he wrote a book about them.

Chris

 

I've seen them before, they are kind of cool. I've heard somewhere that the maker of one of the boards actually put on their to clean the coins with vinegar.

 

Scroll down to where it says "What is PVC."
http://pinoynumismatistnetwork.word...ages-your-coins-know-your-plastic-containers/

 

I don't know about vinegar, but I have seen some that advise cleaning them with a pencil eraser before putting them in the board.

Thanks for the suggestion of the Numismatic Scrapbook. I have a few copies at had and I did some checking. In a 1945 issue they are selling 2X2 paper envelopes, one seller has some with a cellophane window, but apparently just on one side. A 1949 issue is also mostly 2X2 paper envelopes. There is one seller of a 2X2 holder which is a card you put the coin in which then slides into a 2X2 outer holder with acetate windows. I've flipped through bound volumes of the 1957 and 58 issues and found nothing, but most of the ads were removed from those before binding. I'll have to wait until I have a chance to go through my unbound copies. Maybe check as see what I can find in the old back issues of The Numismatist as well.

Oh and that two piece holder I mentioned with the acetate windows. They were called Hollander holders and the windows were tradenamed "Kodapak". That may be what longnine was thinking of.

 

I think it was in a 60's issue of Numismatic
Scrapbook that I saw an ad for "Grading Cards."
NS was cool magazine.