Does anyone label their top loaders or even their card pages? I have so many Virdon cards that look so similar that I would like to label them. I have been going to tackle this for about ten years now and just never have went anywhere with it. There are some places you can have labels printed for you but with over 500 Virdon items it would be way to much money to spend. I would want to be able to print my own but I don't want the label to take up too much room either.
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This is a page out of my Virdon binder. While that might look like two copies of his 1959 Topps card it is actually 1959 Topps and 1959 Topps Venezuelan. (the lighting in my office is way too bright so some of these pics suck).
If it was that one year, no problem I know that I have the Venezuelan and that should be enough but other years it gets more complicated.
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This is not three copies of the 1975 Topps Virdon this is 1975 Topps, 1975 O-Pee-Chee, and 1975 Topps Mail Order Team card. Three cards that look exactly the same from the front but are totally different. (Plus 2024 Heritage Buyback is the same also.)
Then there are the Monstrosities like 1984 Topps.
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Pictured are Topps, Topps Tiffany, Nestle, O-Pee-Chee, Blank Back, UV Ink, Rediscover Blue, and Rediscover Red. You can see my crude labels for the Blank Back and the UV Ink cards.
Outside of my Virdon collection I would probably use them on my Venezuelan and O-Pee-Chee Red Sox cards too. And anything else that is a back only variation, like 07 Topps Red Backs.
Right now I am leaning towards Avery 1.75x.5 labels but if anyone has a suggestion I am totally open to whatever. The Avery labels I can print out of Word or Excel on my regular printer. I will probably stick them to the penny sleeve inside the toploader. I would also use them on my Team Issue pages because they are so had to keep track of what card/postcard is from what year. I have to pull up my checklist and TCBD every time I do anything with team issues just to figure out what I have and what I do not.
If anyone has suggestions please let me know.
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I don't label pages or top loaders for my personal collection, but when I used to set up at flea markets I used these small white rectangular labels to price cards. I'd place them on the penny sleeve and then slide them into the top loader. They were removable, so I don't think they'd work well on 9-pocket pages.
Most of my pages are not labelled, since the labelled binder itself usually only includes cards from 1 year and brand.
But I keep my Phillies and Eagles cards in their own binders (Phillies - 5 years per binder, Eagles - all years in 1 binder), so I label the first page of each year with the year and brand.
I use return address labels from Avery, and stick them along the edge of the page where the 3-hole punches are.
Return address size seems about right. I never thought to look at return address labels. I was just scrolling through sizes trying to pick out one that sounded like the right size.
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