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That looks great. I can't wait to see it after you fill it up.

Very nice.  You're not going to include 1950, 1951 or 1955 Topps?  Or is it just NFL, no college?

cnangle wrote:

I just finished a little project in my collecting room. Initially inspired by Joshua's post, but it went another direction after seeing a display at a flea market. My intent is to display a card from every Topps football set from '56 to '15.

Right now the top row is '56 to '69, the second row is '70 to '79, the third row '80 to '86. The fourth row is a couple autographs and a few Fran Tarkenton cards and the last row is a few cards I had in screw-downs already.

I would have completed it but I don't have anymore screw downs; so the project is on hold until I get more.

cnangle wrote:

Joshua....Congrats on figuring out how to post a pic in the forums! Your'e framed cards are great. I'm inspired and I'm planning my own project based on the idea. Since I collect Topps football, I think I'll do one card from every Topps football set ('56-'15).

How did you put yours together?

I didn't show my newest storage item for my collection. I got this for free a few months ago. One of my work accounts went with a new way to store patient records and wanted to get rid of these. Since I knew they cost several hundred dollars each, I requested one and was lucky to get one of them. It's a 6-foot-tall, 3-foot-wide steel-reinforced plastic cabinet.

The top shelf is my Cardinals collection (and some empty binders in the middle). The second shelf is all of my NASCAR PC cards and the 3rd shelf is all of my NFL PC cards (Panthers on the left and Packers/Patriots on the right). The bottom shelf is empty in this pic, but I put storage/shipping supplies down there (like empty cases and boxes) and my postal scale.

It isn't much, but I have shelves that are built into the walls (that's how they mostly were when we bought the place, we adjusted them to fit bnders, and then I have my pair of wire-rack shelves which hold binders as well as set boxes on top.

I have built-ins too (that I built myself) but they are the size of DVD's. So they are full of DVD's and VHS tapes. My pics above are just my newest storage option. I haven't shown my other 5 bookshelves full of binders and boxes. Those are all of the traders and complete sets though. Oh, my NBA PC cards aren't in the cabinet either but there are only a few hundred that I still want to keep.

Nice job cnangle, I have a very similar system in the cave (I have posted pics in the past) I have the wood screwed to the walls but mine have slots cut into them so that top loaders slide down the rows. I have all my Oiler RCs up there in alphabetical oreder. I'm almost full. YIKES!! I too use the plastic shelves for binders. And also in the process of building shelves for my card librarries. The cardboard system for 12 800 count boxes. I habve two filled and bought another five about 6 months ago. They are still in the shipping box. Summer was good for the most part so I have not had a chance to do anything.

Cool display.  what are you using for the 'rails'?

thanks to all for sharing the pics, very interesting

mark 

"vanoirm......Cool display.  what are you using for the 'rails'?"

I used some scrap 1"x from my woodshop. I used my router to cut grooves in the back so the screwdowns slide in and are held in place. They are pretty basic.