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Storing physical media can be a constant challenge for collectors. Video games, DVDs and/or Blu-ray Discs add up over time and take up a lot of space. I understand why many have sold off their DVD or video game collections, since much of this can be streamed or downloaded via the internet. But there are good reasons for keeping your physical media, and that’s where BCW’s Media Storage Boxes can help you stay organized while keeping your collection pristine.
For a restaurant, visual appeal is important, making a great-looking menu one of the elements to success. After the food has been selected, and a beautiful menu has been designed, it’s important for restaurants to keep their menus looking new and clean. Toploading Print Holders, or simply toploaders, may be the perfect choice for your restaurant, diner, or bar. Toploaders work great if your menu is a single sheet of paper (two-sided), but toploaders are not the solution for you if your menu has multiple pages that fold.
Toploaders are semi-rigid holders that are essentially two layers of clear PVC plastic. The sides and bottom are sealed with plastic ribs, while the top is open, allowing you to slide the menu into the holder. This PVC material is super simple for staff to quickly wipe clean, just try to prevent liquids from getting into the top of the holder. This material is durable and unlikely to break if dropped.
To best preserve a magazine collection, store them in a dark, dry, cool environment. To further protect magazines, place them in sealed magazine bags with a magazine backing board inserted in the bag behind each magazine. The bags and boards will protect the edges, keep the covers in good condition, and minimize the effects of oxidation (the paper turning yellow). BCW magazine bags are made from either polypropylene or mylar. Both materials are acid-free. BCW backing boards are acid-free as well.
Holiday cards are a great way to remind friends and family that you care. While social media, emails and texts are convenient for normal messages, sending holiday cards is a classic holiday tradition. Families often display the cards they’ve received on the fireplace mantel or in a festive basket. Don’t discard these cards after the holidays. It’s easy to protect and organize your cards, making them a part of your family’s history.
BCW offers several solutions for protecting, displaying, and organizing holiday cards, including:
Let’s say you’re at a local convention and you see the Barbie or GI Joe you used to have. It’s in its original box and it has a crazy-high price tag. You think to yourself, “If I kept just a few of my old toys in their original boxes, they could be worth hundreds now”. Well, here’s your chance to protect your POP! figs so they’ll be in mint condition 30 years from now. BCW offers clear boxes to protect POP! figs in their original box. Yes! A box in a protective box makes sense after you see the value of those familiar old toys.
Large and Regular Scale Pop Figures in Storage Boxes
BCW POP! Figure Boxes are made from PET (polyethylene terephthalate), an archival-quality, crystal-clear plastic that is semi-rigid and impact resistant. BCW offers protective boxes for the standard 4-inch figs and the larger 6-inch figs. Do not confuse these large figs with the even larger “vehicles”.
Toploading holders are an affordable method to protect and display photos, documents, posters, and other large art prints. These toploaders are made from a clear PVC which does not contain chemicals that will damage the enclosed prints.
BCW offers a range of sizes of toploaders. Below are the poster sizes in inches. You can view smaller sizes for cards, photos, and specialty items here.
Inserting documents into toploaders can be tricky if the document is glossy, as static electricity between the glossy document and the plastic prevent sliding the piece into the toploader. To help, blow into the toploader as you insert the document, creating a thin cushion of air between the glossy document and the plastic. Just make sure you don’t spit on the document.
BCW Toploaders are designed to store prints on a shelf or in a box, hence they do not have a hanging mechanism. If your goal is to display the print on a wall, a little MacGyvering is needed. For small to medium toploaders, you can adhere these hang tabs on the back of the toploaders. Adhesive backed flat magnets or Velcro work great in many instances. You can also look in the hardware aisle at your local home center or craft store to find hanging systems from 3M and others. For the larger posters shown above, we drilled small holes in the upper corners of the toploaders and hung them with small finishing nails.
National Geographic has been publishing some of the best photography, social stories and science news for over a century. For collectors that want to preserve their yellow-bordered magazine collection, BCW bags, backing boards, and boxes are an ideal solution. While BCW offers supplies to protect traditionally-sized magazines, BCW’s products sized for Silver Age comics books are perfect for National Geographic. The Silver Age is an era in comic book publishing from 1956 to 1969 when comics were similar in dimensions to National Geographics.
The BCW Short Comic Box can hold approximately 56 National Geographics in bags and boards, with room for a few BCW Comic Book Dividers. A BCW Long Comic Box can hold about 100 National Geographics. For a premium box solution, try a BCW Comic Book Bin with a partition that acts as a bookend to keep your National Geographics upright in the bin.
A First Day Cover (FDC) is an envelope or postcard with a stamp that has been cancelled by the post office on the first day the stamp was issued. This traditionally involves getting a “First Day of Issue” postmark on the stamp on the respective date, however those rules have relaxed in the U.S., and now FDC collectors can send stamped envelopes to a Special Event Coordinator to get special “First Day of Issue” postmarks. Often first day of issue stamps are placed on special First Day Cover #6 envelopes or postcards, known as cachets, that commemorate the topic of the stamp.
American Circus First Day Cover Source: Larry Kellogg, www.worthpoint.com
Collecting First Day Covers is fun for stamp collectors as it requires some participation…
First, you must be aware of the release schedule for new stamps if you plan to collect new First Day Covers. This USPS site is a good reference for U.S. stamps. Previously released First Day Covers can be found at stamp stores, antique stores and online.
Second, there are numerous topics for stamps and First Day Cover cachets. If you have a favorite theme, such as bird stamps, collecting FDCs of that theme can be fun and rewarding.
Third, getting an envelope franked with a “First Day of Issue” postmark in only done at the post office (or a special postal station) in one location traditionally. Often there’s a First Day Ceremony for a new stamp design. So if a stamp depicts a historical event, the location related to the historical event may host a First Day Ceremony. As an example, The Batman themed First Day Cover below was available at US Post Offices on October 9th, 2014 to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Caped Crusader. This stamp release was coordinated with the New York Comic Con, where the Post Office established a temporary postal station, Gotham City Station. Parcels cancelled at Gotham City Station received a special pictorial postmark, adding another interesting aspect for stamp collectors. As a service to stamp collectors not attending the New York Comic Con, the USPS allowed customers to mail envelopes or postcards with the adhered Batman stamp to a Special Event Coordinator in New York City and then the stamps receive the special First Day of Issue postmark and get mailed to the respective address.
Batman First Day Cover with pictorial postmark
BCW Supplies offer several items to protect, store and display First Day Cover envelopes and postcards. Select from sleeves, toploaders, and pages for 3-ring binders. See all of BCW’s Postcard and Envelope Supplies.
A custom drawn FDC with a Perseverance on Mars stamp
It always seems to start the same. We buy a new kit and build it. It gets played with for a few weeks and then eventually it ends up disassembled and incorporated into the mass that is the big box of LEGOs. This isn’t really a problem if you keep the instruction manuals because you can alway go back and rebuild the kit anew. The problem becomes “How do I keep the little books safe, intact, and together?”
A collection of LEGO books stored for future use.
I find that 3-ring binder pages work really well for this task. The 1-pocket document page works great for the large kits. The 1-pocket photo pages are good for the medium large kits and the 2,3, and 4 pocket pages do a good job of holding the booklets for the smaller kits. Sometimes I had to stack two booklets to fill a pocket because of the odd shape of some of these instructions.
When assembled, the LEGO binder is a fun item for my kids to flip through while we remember the fun we had assembling these kits.
