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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Burgess, post: 7651360, member: 105098&quot;]HARCO coinmaster, the pages in the original absolutely had PVC and smelled like shower curtains, they did make non-pvc pages and were replacing them free of charge when the company was in business still, but the damage was already done.</p><p><br /></p><p>Not sure if you have the old PVC pages, or the new non-pvc ones, but better to be safe instead of sorry.</p><p><br /></p><p>Literally anything is better than leaving them in the PVC, but the good news is, I don&#039;t visibly see any green or funky going on yet in the pictures, which leads me to believe they are the non-pvc replacement pages, but still, better safe than sorry, many a collection and some high priced coins were amaged by these albums.</p><p><br /></p><p>That said, try to keep the album in the best condition you can after removing the coins carefully, Harco isn&#039;t in business anymore, and the album itself might have collector value, not for holding coins, but as a collector item itself.</p><p><br /></p><p>in their day the albums were nice, and classy, that was their appeal. until people figured out the catastrophe of PVC, that was the album to have. </p><p><br /></p><p>These existed in the 1980s and 1990s. not sure when they started, the owner died and company went out of business around 2000.</p><p><br /></p><p>I wouldn&#039;t put coins in it, but I&#039;d love to have one put up for long term as an example of what Harco produced.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s one on EBay, still in the wrap. So you could see how it was when it was new, clearly in the advertisement picture, they were vinyl (PVC) but nobody knew back then what would happen over the years. </p><p><a href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/133736372715?hash=item1f234f19eb:g:vrsAAOSwMBtgpDPN" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/133736372715?hash=item1f234f19eb:g:vrsAAOSwMBtgpDPN" rel="nofollow">https://www.ebay.com/itm/133736372715?hash=item1f234f19eb:g:vrsAAOSwMBtgpDPN</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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