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 Posted 01/15/2011  5:14 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add mbird to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
I am very happy with the 3-pocket polyester currency pages and I was thinking of storing the albums of these pages (polypropylene non-PVC three-ring binders) in a polypropylene box with some indicating silica gel (the orange kind not the cobalt containing).

But... I wonder about air circulation. Is it OK to close up these boxes while stored or do I need some air circulation?

My concern comes from a person who wrote to me with what seems very logical: "Air circulation is always preferable. Keeping documents enclosed only promotes deterioration through the ubiquitous evolution of sulfur compounds from any enclosed paper products containing lignin."

But,naturally the question arise... if I have to have air circulation then how do I keep my banknotes in a nice closed box with dehumidifying silica gel?
-I could dehumidify the whole room (overkill) but I'd rather a localized solution such as a box.
-Perhaps I can just open the box every week or so to air it out?

Also if the banknotes are in pages aren't they really already in a micro-environment where it is an enclosed space and the sulfur that would arise would be trapped in that page's pocket?

Calling on all experts! (especially living in new England) how do you handle the humid summer for your banknotes?

(Funny thing is I always worry about this yet I look at my stamps that have been in Lighthouse Vario pages for 10+ years just in the closet with no humidity control and they seem unchanged and just as fresh as the day I put them in there :)
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01/15/2011 5:19 pm
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Late reply - but here goes.

I now stay away from using any kind of soft binder pages from my notes. I don't know if my old ones were PVC, but my first notes were all organized using those binder sheets. A few years later when I took out my notes to examine them, I found a thin layer of residue on all of them.

Now I store my better notes in archival holders (really rigid ones) and keep the rest in a small stack, all in a closed box with a few packets of silica. The box isn't airtight, and I do open it once every 2 weeks or so to look at them or add more notes, but haven't noticed any degrading of the notes.
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 Posted 01/21/2011  09:18 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add mbird to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
>I found a thin layer of residue on all of them
Yes that definitely sounds like PVC.

I use archival polyester 3-pocket pages and those work great (no PVC, no slime). My main concern is the air-circulation. I want to do a closed box (not really air-tight) with Silica just like you do (the box will be polypropylene -- no PVC!).

I assume a bank box and home safes are the same situation (no air circulation until opened).

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