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rayfromtexas
Posts: 545
Joined: Dec 2008
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Sunday, January 25, 2015 2:27 PM | |
I'm not talking about full sets, but individual cards. I have LOTS of jersey/autograph type cards from many players. I like to TRY and sort them alphabetically (last name first, etc)...but sometimes that gets tedious! Plus being the OCD person I am, I like to sort just jersey cards, just autograph cards, then jersey WITH autographs, etc...but I was just wondering how some of you do it.
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vrooomed
Posts: 14,980
Joined: Dec 2012
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Sunday, January 25, 2015 7:47 PM | |
Players/Team I collect - by player.
Players I don't collect - I sell/trade or they go in a box in year order, numerical order.
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-- Dan -- Note: Please see my profile for more info regarding trading (section updated 3/4/2024). I have added a large portion of my inventory to the site, and currently have trading turned on (details are in my profile).
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Billy Kingsley
Posts: 7,512
Joined: Aug 2011
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Sunday, January 25, 2015 9:56 PM | |
By set. In numerical order. Insets alphabetically and then number order.
However, with that said...I sorted my NBA collection by player in 2004 to recreate my Excel chart that corrupted on an old floppy disk, and I have not sorted them back by set yet. After I finish scanning them I will sort them back by set, but I'm afraid I can't find them all now. And to add insult to injury, so to speak, the file I recreated with the last sort in 2004, that was totally lost, instead of just the letter S. I wasn't able to save any of it. I'm very slowly recreating it, and better, now.
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VERY slow trading due to health problems. Not transferrable so safe to trade with, just moving is painful and can't always access the cards. Cardboard History My COMC New Collection Website: Cardboard History Gallery (Still under construction) Tips on how to make your scans look like the card does in hand (No more washed out, fuzzy scans!):
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sandyrusty
Posts: 4,676
Joined: Dec 2014
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Monday, January 26, 2015 8:00 AM | |
Alphabetically by name, then year, then number. HoF (+ Pete Rose) are separate from the others. Nolan Ryan is separate from everything else.
All cards 1987 or older and the more valuable from 1988 and newer are in hard plastic, HoF or not; everything else HoF is in binders (9-count plastic sheets); non-HoF mostly in shoeboxes.
I collect over 200 players so it is quite a pile of boxes and over two bookcases of binders. And it just seems to keep on growing!
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Bruno -------- Check my Profile page to see my 2023 Goals and my Lists of sets near completion (5 cards or less) or sets getting close (less than 100 cards missing and 75% complete). https://www.tcdb.com/Forum.cfm/Page/B/ID/0/?MODE=VIEW&ThreadID=25745&C=0
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Finestkind
Posts: 591
Joined: Nov 2013
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Monday, January 26, 2015 5:07 PM | |
I only build sets. So it's all by #'s. Or I try to.
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Young Kilo
Posts: 118
Joined: Mar 2012
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Tuesday, January 27, 2015 2:35 AM | |
By players. And than by teams player played with
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Redsfan
Posts: 372
Joined: Oct 2011
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Tuesday, January 27, 2015 5:12 AM | |
Since I collect only Cincinnati Reds cards, I sort by major brand, year, subset and numerical order. The misc brands and minor league cards are separate but sorted the same.
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armac
Posts: 331
Joined: Oct 2014
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Tuesday, January 27, 2015 8:49 AM | |
Similar to Redsfan,
my
collection is only
Cleveland Browns
cards.
I sort mine in
probably the least
efficient way - in
pages by year, and
then alphabetically
by player, and each
player
alphabetically by
set. The exceptions
are anything serial
numbered 25 or
less, or what I
consider valuable -
either
sentimentally or
monetarily.
The inefficiency is
that when I get new
cards for any given
year I have to
start shifting
cards...
I considered just
going by player,
and then by year
but one of my
friends has
convinced me that
it displays so well
to look at
everything by year,
and then all the
different cards for
each player by
year. So far I have
listened to him and
kept going this way
but it isn't easy.
Edited on: Jan 27, 2015 - 8:50AM
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vrooomed
Posts: 14,980
Joined: Dec 2012
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Tuesday, January 27, 2015 10:43 AM | |
Slight amendment - as most of you know, I collect the Phillies, and I'm currently sitting at 9 binders (no smaller than 2"). I do the same as armac, except, for the sets I am trying to get all the cards, I will leave spots open for the cards (so I don't have to shift later). There are some sets (for example, 1996 Upper Deck), where I may only have 3 cards, and I'm not trying to complete that team set. I'll just put the 3 that I have on a page in alphabetical order. That is one of my next tasks - go through the binders and see which non-Topps sets I want to try to complete. Then my baseball wantlist will go up!
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-- Dan -- Note: Please see my profile for more info regarding trading (section updated 3/4/2024). I have added a large portion of my inventory to the site, and currently have trading turned on (details are in my profile).
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Howintensive
Posts: 41
Joined: May 2014
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Tuesday, January 27, 2015 8:58 PM | |
My Red Wings collection is in binders in order of career games played with the team. It adds a fun research aspect of collecting.
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