How To Store And Display Awards.

[desantnik]

Impressive set of awards!

[Tretov]

How do you people store your award books (both order and medal books)

I decided today to move all the books from their former storage place (a metal box) to a more easy-to-find photo-album, however the books are so thick that the album can not be closed at all and can not be stored in a normal bookshelf.

How do you store them?

[new world]

I just keep them in a separate stack, similar to your metal box.

If a book belong to a group then it's kept in small plastic envelope together with the group.

Not the best system, but works fine for me.

William

[matteti]

I also put my books in a photo album and got the same problem as Tretov.
But I started to use larger photo albums, the ones that measure around 9"X12" and have rings like binders book. It contains sheets which can hold 4 pictures(4X6) on each side of the sheet. So, I put 4 books per sheet side and I just use few sheets and remove the extra sheets. Like this I keep the album to a reasonable thickness.

In my case, one album is fine for all my books because I don't have a lot. But you can easily place 64 or more books in a single album this way.

Hope I was not too much unclear with my bad english!

[Dave]

I keep all of my order and award books with the group in a display frame (which you've probably seen). If the group isn't in a frame, I keep it stored, along with the documents and photos in a freezer Ziploc bag.

--Dave

P.S. My computer won't let me view your movie... Real One tried to download the updates automatically, but couldn't find the right ones online...

[Dolf]

Patrik,

Nice little movie

I use one of those larger binder books with rings, not exactly for photos but rather for students or offices, see what I mean? I can attach plastic sheets of different formats and sizes for different kinds of Docs. Right now I only have a few Docs anyway, but even if my collection increases in number, when this one will be full I'd get another one.
Have recently got a digital camera but don't know how to use it yet
When I will I can try to email you a pic if you wish.

Cheers,

Dolf

[k3rvmfusa]

I find storing award books in binders works best for me. I place them in archival quality photo album pages. I store the red order books in pages that have 4 pockets. For folded card-stock certificates I unfold them and store in sheets that have two pockets.

[Jumpmaster]

I found a small cabinet of drawers at an estate sale. It held commemorative coins with each drawer having a plastic tray of inserts for the coins. Each drawer is about 1.5” deep with the bottom being around 2”. I removed the trays and lined the drawers. It houses many of my single US medals and bars, custom ribbon sets, British Orders, and my single Soviet goodies.

[Alvarez]

Red star collection in a couple of boxes for watch collectors:

[CtahhR]

Seems to be a really simple (and fairly cheap) solution. I've found screwback awards to be a bit of a nightmare to store successfully, but that looks like a solid uniform way to do it.