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ranfordfan
Posts: 4,975
Joined: Jun 2014
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Thursday, September 21, 2017 9:12 PM | |
Sounds corny but stay safe over there, storms here, pyscos over there!! I think you are the first asia-based collector I have seen on the forums. As ofor the library card idea, that simply ROCKS!!! I now know what to look out for. That is sweet. Its like a sports card humidor!! ROFL
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ketchupman36
Posts: 787
Joined: Feb 2016
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Thursday, September 21, 2017 11:11 PM | |
Billy, how are your scans tagged? Do you have a folder for each set with each image named for the card number? I have my scans set up in folders like Baseball -> 2017 Topps -> 1.jpg and 1b.jpg
Just wondering how other people do it. I've found my system to work well.
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spazmatastic
Posts: 5,905
Joined: Dec 2014
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Thursday, September 21, 2017 11:44 PM | |
When I scan cards that are my traders just to add here, I don't keep them once they're added. So I make it simple:
* If I am working on a bunch from the same set then the file name is 1-1 for the front of card #1 and 1-2 is the back of card #1.
* If I'm scanning several cards from different sets and brands, I'll add the year and a few letters before the card numbers. Such as "1999 TC56-1" would be the front of the 56th card in the 1999 Topps Chrome set.
If it's something I want to keep on my laptop, I'll add more info to the title. Usually spelling out brands and parallels instead of using a letter or two and sometimes adding player initials in the title. For the scans that I do keep on my computer, I have folders to separate them. Everything scans into my Pictures -> Sports Cards -> New Stuff sub-folder. After I add the scans to the site, I move them from "New Stuff" to the correct sub-folder in the "Sports Cards" folder (ie. "Cardinals", "Panthers", "Jimmie Johnson", etc.).
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NO PWE's EVER!!! PLZ PM me 1st before sending any offer. ONLY selling cards as of March 2024. No trades or purchases right now. _______________________________________________________________________ Largest total PC card collections by Team, then Athlete (as of 3/22/24): STL Cardinals (MLB) - 8810; Carolina Panthers - 2888; GB Packers - 1790+ cards Mark Martin (NASCAR) - 2038 cards; Jimmie Johnson (NASCAR) - 1875 cards; Jeff Gordon (NASCAR) - 1594; Ricky Rudd (NASCAR) - 839; Ozzie Smith (MLB) - 707
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Billy Kingsley
Posts: 7,512
Joined: Aug 2011
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Friday, September 22, 2017 1:35 AM | |
I have a file for each season. In each file, the cards are properly labeled and stored in numerical order. Card backs are stored separately. I have so many cards scanned I have them in multiple places...I don't have any device large enough to store all my scans in one place. They are all on my website. Sorted the exact same way as I store the original files, too. I also wrote up captions for each season for the NBA and NASCAR. Originally when I began scanning my collection in 2009 I was doing fronts only for my own website, I didn't start doing backs until I joined the Database in 2012, and I still have some needing back scans only that were already done on here. Eventually I will get to them. Trying to figure out how to label some insert is what got me here in the first place, unfortunately I don't remember which one.
I think I have shown a screencap on my blog of the original files storage at some point in the past but I am too tired to go looking for it now. Once I save up and buy a remote hard drive, I am going to copy and paste the scans so I have three copies- one sorted by season, one sorted by team and one sorted by player, at least for NBA and NHL. Will sort by person for NASCAR but I may not bother with the teams. It depends on if I have something else to do or if I run out of stuff. If I run out of anything else (ALL my collections documented) then I am sure I will. This is a ways in the future though. If I get to that point I will probably do the three way storage system for baseball, football and Olympics as well. Olympics may get done anyway but they don't get as many cards...and the USA is pretty much the only team that gets cards.
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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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Sportzcommish
Posts: 6,027
Joined: Oct 2016
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Friday, September 22, 2017 4:32 AM | |
Beautiful display! Who's the guitar player?
Also, still waiting for some schooling on how to get pictures of my displays on here. I haven't been able to figure it out. (Of course, after seeing scrubeenie's display it's all downhill from my perspective.)
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Follow my blog - I Identify as a Card Collector. “Aslan didn't tell Pole what would happen. He only told her what to do. That fellow will be the death of us once he's up, I shouldn't wonder. But that doesn't let us off following the signs.” - Puddleglum in The Silver Chair by C. S. Lewis
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IfbBirdsCards
Posts: 836
Joined: Aug 2017
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Friday, September 22, 2017 5:03 AM | |
That's a cool way to do it. I like it.
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#2 Bowie Baysox, #12 Trey Mancini, & #3 Austin Wynns collector on the site. Also expanding my hockey, MMA, and Hofstra alumni collection. Collecting cards since 2011 (Age 8). -Ian
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IfbBirdsCards
Posts: 836
Joined: Aug 2017
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Friday, September 22, 2017 5:06 AM | |
I snapped a picture then copied and pasted it in.
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#2 Bowie Baysox, #12 Trey Mancini, & #3 Austin Wynns collector on the site. Also expanding my hockey, MMA, and Hofstra alumni collection. Collecting cards since 2011 (Age 8). -Ian
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scrubeenie
Posts: 144
Joined: Jun 2012
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Friday, September 22, 2017 8:33 AM | |
A bit more info on this storage solution. I put the cards in to penny sleeves and then in to Semi-Rigid card holders as those offer the best fit for this storage method. I can fit about 350 cards in to each drawer without it being too tight a fit.
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avsbruins65
Posts: 2,149
Joined: Sep 2008
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Friday, September 22, 2017 9:40 AM | |
that really is cool. I have a CD holder like that has 24 draws, I use it mainly for my PC players that havethick cards and graded cards
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Trying to acquire one card for every for every set, insert, parralle, minor, euro, team issue, oddball etc sets produced for Hockey. Been an interesting project.
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sandyrusty
Posts: 4,687
Joined: Dec 2014
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Friday, September 22, 2017 11:15 AM | |
Love your filing cabinet. I have some thing similar though home built. For the younger crowd, this is an old TV when TV was in black and white. I gutted it then built drawers. Each drawer holds 510 top loaders so total 3060 card capacity. The larger bottom drawer was where the speakerswere and now holds the hard plastic card holders in my collection. I have a similar idea for another stereo cabinet that I have yet to modify.
(Hope the picsare easily visible. And no, I am not a Red Sox fan; just like the idea of Fenway Park. Wrigley Field would be my next project pic.)
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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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