Large Archival Wardrobe Boxes?

[strawberry 9]

Does anyone have a good website or supplier for large archival wardrobe boxes? I can only find the smaller ones. For that matter, does anyone know where to buy regular large wardrobe boxes? Thanks in advance

[Bluehawk]

HOW large are you wanting? And, are you talking about flat or hanging vertical storage?

 

Keeping it simpler than it really is, there are two basic types of archival boxes = Solander and Hollinger. Both can be made to order in almost any size, and come in quite a large variety of ready-made sizes. Custom built is not cheap.

 

Solander tends to be a lot less expensive (though just as archival) and Hollinger is the more sturdy, hence more costly.

 

Link see:

http://www.conservationresources.com.au/html/home/products/product.php?pid=164

[strawberry 9]

Thanks for the info. I'll check them out. I'm looking for flat storage.

[skautdog]

Here is another supply house similar to Hollingers. I've bought acid free paper and other supplies from Gaylords.

 

http://www.gaylord.com/

 

Ken

[strawberry 9]

Thanks Ken!

[jgawne]

lying them flat is best, but it takes room and the damn boxes are expensive.

[Bluehawk]

That ^ is certainly true, on both counts.

 

The upside is that those boxes will last practically indefinitely. I've gone back to my museums of decades past, only to see the very ones I personally stored artifacts in with those same objects in them, looking like they were bought yesterday.

 

There is nothing in the world comparable.

[strawberry 9]

I've helped out a friend who is a curator at a museum in the past and the boxes are great. In the long run I think it is money well spent.