Looking for information on vintage albums (Pictures added)

[Bugmann1974]

I picked up a couple of sets of albums from a local dealer that I think are pretty neat.

 

They are made by the Lee Charles Co. The pages are plastic with holes for the coins and then a hard plastic slip cover that goes over the entire page. The pages are held in with piano hinges. They seem to be made in the early '60s, which is kind of neat because they pre dated some of the holes including 65-67 where they have spots for D minted coins.

 

Are there any pros/cons to useing these? Two of the ones I bought are for Lincoln cents and it would seem that these plastic pages would help considerably in keeping the red cents red.

[cpm9ball]

I don't know anything about them, but you should make sure that the plastic does not contain PVC before you use them. Many products were made 40-50 years ago without concern for archival quality. Maybe David Lange can tell you something about them.

 

Chris

[James_OldeTowne]

I have some of these albums as well, and have even put a collection into them in the past (Washington quarters). They are non-PVC, but since they are plastic, it wouldn't surprise me if they could haze your coins. But they do provide an attractive way to display a collection.

[DWLange]

I have the Charles brand album for Lincoln Cents. It's a work of art.

 

The plastic seems to be acrylic, similar to what's used by Capital Plastics. My estimation is that it's relatively safe for coin storage.

 

I collect all coin albums, so anyone who wants to part with a Charles album is invited to PM me.

[Bugmann1974]

Here are the two sets I got. Vol 1 and 2 of Lincoln cents and Vol 1 and 2 of Washington Quarters.

David is right. I meant to mention in my first post that they are quite a bit like Capitol holders. These albums are very nice and I would imagine that they were high dollar in their time. I added some coins to them, I noticed that the cent book has holes that the coins fit perfectly in. In the quarter book the holes are slightly on the smallish side making it hard to insert quarters into it.

 

[Coindude]

Wow, those are pretty neat. Where'd you find them?

[James_OldeTowne]

Different series feature different colored album covers, as I recall. As in your examples, Lincoln cents had red coverse, Washington quarter albums were light tan. However, I don't know if the colors were denomination-dependent, or type-dependent.

[TonerGuy]

Very nice albums. I have never seen one like that. Good score.

[TomB]

They look spectacular.

[rrantique]

Nice score Ray. (thumbs u

[Bugmann1974]

Wow, those are pretty neat. Where'd you find them?

 

I got them from a local B&M.

 

Thanks for the information and compliments guys!

[Brando]

Wow, those look ridiculously nice...might have to keep my eyes peeled for some of those.