How To Store And Display Awards.

[CtahhR]

I believe these exact three Medals are currently being offered for sale on everyone's favourite auction site for a mere $300!!

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Originally Posted by CtahhR

I believe these exact three Medals are currently being offered for sale on everyone's favourite auction site for a mere $300!!

yeah all well asking but i doubt he will get that price.

going by his site, i had 2 pretty expensive north korean awards (one being the the order of freedom & Independence) - tried selling them everywhere but i couldn't even get my money back

i ended up trading with a medal dealer for a ww1 kia group

[CtahhR]

I believe that very Order (F&I 2nd) is now with me.

I have watched a great many DPRK awards be bought from China (at auctions starting at 99 cents) and then they are put back on the market in the UK with them usually selling for less than was the purchase price originally (and me purchasing them). I once watched a particular Order sell in China then in the Uk then again in the UK and once more in the UK when I bought it for considerably less than it was originally purchased "from source". They are NOT investment pieces as my pricing thread aims to show.

I think those three Medals currently offered wouldn't tempt me even if a 0 was removed from the price and included free postage. I have picked up all three (of a similar period or exact same variation) for under a dollar before.

The great influx of DPRK items into the collection over the last 2 years has caused considerable storage and display issues which I have also documented to an extent on the forum.

The poor quality plastic cases are not really a valid solution and I store those in storage containers - empty. Nearly all the Medals/Badges and some of the Orders fit in the plastic envelopes I use but. The amount of screwbacks has also increased so much they have totally overflowed the frame I had for them which fits 29. The usual pinback Orders I have found extremely difficult to store and with over 700 of them I had to have considerable thought about them. My (temporary) solution is to lay them out in a drawer layer upon layer with tea-towels between each layer. It makes for one very stuffed and heavy drawer.

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Originally Posted by CtahhR

I believe that very Order (F&I 2nd) is now with me.

are you the medal dealer who own that shop near trafalgar square in london?

[CtahhR]

No, but I may have sourced one from there.
I really hoover up the DPRK items when I see them at the right price. If you look at all the items and variations I have posted in the DPRK section that is nothing like the complete selection. I got very overwhelmed just by sheer number and many types and variations have not only to be posted but I have to find them in my pile first. One I posted recently had been sat in front of me for months and I finally decided to look at it and it was immediately obvious it was yet another variation to record.

I may get inspired to do some more sorting next year but the door is closed on DPRK items for this year. Hundreds and Hundreds that I haven't even looked at yet that I am struggling to store let alone display.

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Originally Posted by CtahhR

No, but I may have sourced one from there.

well i only traded it about 2 weeks ago.

i did it have it up for sale at the vbclassified's here but i dont think anyone wanted it.

[CtahhR]

Maybe not the one. I picked one up for $16 and the other for $20. This just means there are even more of these out there than I was tracking! The market is getting saturated even with me pulling them off as quickly as I can.