How the pandemic and professional grading have made ticket stub collecting more popular than ever.
By Sal Barry
While trading cards may always be number one among sports memorabilia enthusiasts, ticket stub collecting has gradually heated up over the past two years. It has done so for two reasons. The COVID-19 pandemic and grading companies have both made collecting physical ticket stubs more popular than ever. However, digital ticketing may erode some of that enthusiasm – but maybe not for long.
BCW Supplies is excited to welcome Jeremy D. Bonfiglio as our Music Category Manager. Jeremy will assist vinyl record collectors, record stores, and record show vendors with finding the best solution to protect, store, and display their record collection.
If you have a large collection of sports or gaming cards, you likely have card boxes on shelves. The IKEA-style shelves (pictured below), or wire rack shelves (pictured further below) are effective solutions for card box storage. So what card boxes are best for your card collection on your shelves? There are a few things to consider before you buy card boxes or shelves. Will your cards be stored loose, in toploaders, in magnetics, or other card holders? Will you have any graded cards? How many cards are in your collection? Whatever the answer to these questions, BCW has card boxes to solve your storage needs.
Before you get your card boxes, you might have questions about how the boxes will fit on your shelves. To demonstrate how your boxes will look on IKEA or wire rack shelves, we provided examples below. The wire shelves we used are 36″ wide by 16″ deep.
BCW offers small card boxes too, which are not pictured below. You can find all of our card boxes here.
Card Catalog on IKEA Shelves
The 6 Drawer Card Catalog is designed to fit in IEKA shelving, but also locks together with other units to create a modular system. Using the Catalog with a Kallax lets you find cards easily, as you don’t have to physically maneuver boxes. This makes it a perfect setup for someone with a large collection they access regularly.
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BCW offers a wide variety of boxes to store your comic books, gaming cards, sports cards, card holders, records, and other media such as video games and dvds. If you have never folded one of these boxes on your own, the first time you fold them can be somewhat confusing. Since there may be some question about the proper way to fold these boxes, we have created videos for each one of our boxes, which includes information about what the boxes store and how to fold them. If you are having trouble folding these boxes or aren’t sure which box you need, check out these videos:
The opinion of The Professor at Tolarian Community College is trusted by many players in the Magic: The Gathering community. He discusses Magic set releases, Commander decks, supplies, and more. He has reviewed several BCW products over the last few years. Some reviews are below, or visit The Professor’s Youtube channel for all of his videos.
In 2021, The Professor gave the Prism Deck Case an “A” grade. Prisms are part of BCW’s Spectrum brand of gaming products, which includes board game products. Prism Deck Cases are sized to hold 100 double-sleeved cards. They are available in eight colors, and have a matte finish. These are a two-piece, snap-together design.
A Modular Sorting Tray is made by combining individual card cells to form a grid sized for your needs. The cells are connected with strong dovetail joints. These trays are normally used for card sorting projects, and organizing cards while playing board games. However in the hands of a hobby shop, Modular Sorting Trays are excellent merchandising tools. Since whole trays are made by combining individual cells, the store can create a tray that’s the ideal size for their shelf, display case, or convention table. The base of each card cell can be moved from a flat “storage mode” to an angled “display mode”. This angled display mode makes a beautiful presentation of the cards.
The card cells in a Modular Sorting Tray are large enough to accommodate toploaders, magnetics, and semi-rigid #2s. Above, the Baseball Card King used a tray for display-case-worthy cards in SR2s.
Comic Shops – Get your store prepared for 2021 holiday sales! To start the season, ComicsPRO is sponsoring Local Comic Shop Day on Wednesday, November 24th. To participate, comic shops can register with no charge in 2021. Track the LCSD Facebook page for announcements about the special comics available for this event.
To help stores stock-up with products BCW has in the warehouse, BCW is offering 20% off in-stock printed comic boxes and Comic Book Stor-Folios (excludes the standard white comic boxes and black Stor-Folios). Offer good through November 30th, 2021. Comic shops can get this savings when they sign-in to their bcwsupplies.com wholesale account, add the products to their cart, and use coupon code LCSD21 during checkout. Comic shops that do not already have a BCW wholesale account can apply here.
BCW printed comic boxes and Comic Book Stor-Folios
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Coin flips are a common solution for protecting collectible coins. These are paper rectangles that fold into 2″ x 2″ squares with the coin enclosed between the folded layers. Circular windows are covered with BOPP film (biaxially oriented polypropylene) to hold the coin in the window. The coin flip is normally labelled by writing the coin’s details on the paper. Traditional coin flips are sealed shut with one or more staples.
BCW Peel-n-Seal Coin Flips eliminate the need for using staples. A layer of adhesive on the inside of the flip allows you to enclose the coin by simply removing the adhesive backing, centering the coin in the window, and sealing the flip closed. In addition to simplicity, this has a few advantages over the stapling method. First, metal staples are not in your row of coin flips, avoiding the possibility of scratching a coin against a staple. Second, the omission of the staples provides more space for you to label your coin on the paper.
