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For the past month or so I’ve been including a message at the bottom of my thank you emails to buyers which is worded more or less like this:

I’m looking to put together a post sometime in the near future about how collector’s are storing and/or displaying their collections.  If you’d care to share, please feel free to reply with any info.

And a few have.  So what I’m going to do is continue to ask and then post those I find especially helpful.  I have a couple of really detailed replies on the back burner right now that I’m hoping to receive some accompanying images for.  This one is pretty nuts & bolts stuff though, but definitely helpful.

Once you've bought this 8x10 Promotional Photo of Fredric March what do you do with it? What comes next?

From Stephanie, who purchased the Fredric March photo shown on this page:

• I store tobacco and cigarette cards in Vue-All 3-1/2″ X 3-1/2″ pages, 6 per page, with the accompanying binder from ArchivalUSA
• I keep my postcards and most 5″ x 7″ stuff in compact postcard albums from safepub.com.
• My 8″ x 10″ up to 12″ x 12″ photos I keep in Memory Albums with Acid-Free black paper, etc.
• My big thick magazines I keep in a binder that was made especially for LIFE magazines that I purchased from BagsUnlimited.
• I keep my lobby cards in a START display binder you can open and set-up like an easel.

That’s it for now, but that’s definitely a start!

Look for this to be a semi-regular column, some even shorter than this, some long enough to possibly take up multiple posts.  I have a few comments such as this saved right now, and as I said, I’m working on a couple of bigger ones, but I’m going to try spacing out the posting so we don’t get to all the good stuff at once!

Why this column? Questions about displaying your collection are the most common queries I receive from customers and are one of the best ways to stump me in an interview.  The items I offer for sale are more organized than displayed, as my concern after listing them is being able to find them as easily as possible in order to get them off to you.  It occurred to me that the best people to answer this question are the people who actually collect these items.  So I decided to put the question out there to my customers.

Of course if you’d like to add your own notes about how you display your collectibles–and they don’t need to be movie collectibles, anything you collect will do–then feel free to comment below.

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