Quick Question On The Older Whitman Bookshelf Albums.

I do not believe so. The plastic slides are rigid, not soft. It is the plasticizers added to PVC (to make PVC soft) that causes all the problems.

I know that the old Harco Coinmaster album pages had PVC (the new ones do not). They are not the same kind of album. The Whitman and Dansco use cardboard pages with plastic slides. There is absolutely no reason to used plasticized PVC for those slides.

I hope Just Carl will see this topic. He has been using Whitman albums a very long time with zero problems. I can almost guarantee he has contacted Whitman directly to ask them what materials they use and have used.

If it was made before the late 1980's, the chances are good that it has PVC. Do not hold me to it, but I seem to recall that the mid to late 1980's is when I started seeing the "PVC FREE!" ads for coin supplies. I hope someone can verify this.

I actually have some experience with the Coinmaster albums. It was the album that I wanted to get when I moved from folders in 1984, but my grandfather's coin dealer friend hooked me on Dansco. He showed me his only Coinmaster album (which I can believe he kept to "sell" people on Dansco). It was definitely an older PVC version with greasy and grimey pages and some damaged coins in it.