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!!

[shotgun01]

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.

[shotgun01]

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?

[Tommy]

Its a wet day off work, perfect day for a spot of framing.

2 very small "groups"

One to a film protectionist, the other, a Ukrainian GPW vet.

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Cheers,

Tom

[Jeffrey Meffert]

Finally got around to doing this. For some time now I've had a framed set of soviet "medals" which were supposedly made up for "Hunt for Red October" although I never saw them used in the film. They are imaginative to say the least. I wanted to recreate a more honest representation. Of course if the house catches fire, I want to make sure people toss the right one (the one with real lenin, OG2, and october revolution) out the window.

[CtahhR]

After this impending fire happens remember not to tell the insurance man you threw the goodies out.
Any chance of closer pictures of the props?

[Jeffrey Meffert]

it's a bit hard though the glass and i don't want to take apart the rear. Interesting that all of them have a tsarist-like embellishment at the top. First up is bulldozered Lenin, followed by Stalin impersonating W.C Fields and the very rare order of Kutuzov of the October revolution.

[Jeffrey Meffert]

And you have the order of red banner run over by a train, the rare Order of glory 2nd class via Nakhimov medal. Finally you have the Combat Service Medal via Ushakov medal. I guess since we were dealing with soviet navy, we had to have the naval orders in there somehow...even if only on their ribbons

[CtahhR]

These really are something else.
Is it just me or does Stalin look more like Emperor Franz Joseph?