Here's a tip you might like, if you use slab albums with 9-slot pages.

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Now that's a great idea, Thanks

 

Great post, any recommendations on brand for slab album?

 

Thanks for your tips, LordM.

I also used Lighthouse slab album pages, and have been wondering how to put matching information (purchasing invoices, etc) together.

 

Very cool! This displays up nicely and is a great way to have everything together.

 

Very helpful tip. I use trading card pages for baseball cards and other cards but that’s a good idea.

 

This is very helpful. I've been trying to put the essential purchase information on a handwritten sticker I add to the slab. But of course, there is not much room to place the sticker on the slab. Thus I like your solution to the issue.

 

Yes, I also like these pages, but as to your placing additional sticker info on slabs, just stick a small 2x1.5 "post-it" on the reverse over the TPG label...the TPG is identified on the obverse side, anyway...they fit perfectly on PCGS slabs without covering smaller coins, and only the tops of large coins, or you can under-fold the bottom of the stickers just enough to clear the large coin or the slab edge, depending on how you orient the sticker to the coin. Adhesive doesn't hurt or stick to slab. Should work fine with pages if you're not removing the slabs from slots too much/often. I do the same thing if I can't get all the info on an Avery label.

 

Great, efficient and neat organizing tactic. I love it. Not wishing any bad to you or anyone, but it'll also be a very welcome inheritance for your heirs. Talk about time saving for them.

Awesome post Rob.

 

that is a LOT of work

 

Actually, I don't like it. If it is stolen, the invoices are stolen with the coins.

 

You can't depend on things online remaining accessable. In fact, you can depend on it not being so. After all EBAY can NEVER go out of business like AT&T or Novell or DEC (or CompuServ (thanks dad))

 

I use trading card slots.. They typically are good enough to fit a piece of paper or two, folded. That's where I keep every letter I get from CoinTalk members

Also helps me keep provenance in line. You could even alternate, slabs on one page, and documentation in the next page in the trading card slot.

 

Thanks for your additional info, Evan.

 

That is a great tip Rob. Thanks for the post.

 

For sure

I don't recall his name, but one of the big names in the USENET era has made clear that many file types will not be readable with tech now, and these filetypes will only become more and more obsolete. I think of old video games which will be rendered unrunnable, old documents saved in long gone file formats, and I'm sure there are many more. This is partially why I have transferred all of my grandmothers data off of her Windows 98 computer (I don't know how it still works after so many years)

Already, my computer can’t run a program I made less than a decade ago. It will be like the burning of the great library all over again. Files that we may lose in decades to come may have great consequence.