How To Store And Display Awards.

[Dolf]

Concur- There is no room between the award and the glass, thus the reason why I like the IR frames. While I've been asked about that damaging the award, think about what Soviet awards that you know of that have enamel on the highest point of the award. The only one that's even debateable is the banner on the October Revolution... All the others have metal touching the glass. Last I checked, I don't think glass is going to hurt silver/gold/platinum! Also, the glass very nicely holds documents of varying thickness in place. I can have a general's ID book (quite thick) right next to a single page document, and have them both held into place nicely.
--Dave

Dave,

I couldn't agree more with you.
Just a side note about Soviet Awards having enamel on the highest point:
Sure I'm not an expert, and I don't have a Order of the October Revolution (yet ) but from the 23 Soviet Awards I currently own, I have one where the enamel touches the glass. It's a Guards Badge, with it's Red enameled Star right on the center of the Award. So obviously in this case the enamel is under pressure of the glass, but it's yet to see if it will damage the enamel with time.

3/4" equates to just over 19mm. There is more pressure under the glass of an Indian River case because it is in a wood frame with a wood backing. The riker mount is made of cardboard, and thus will "bend" under pressure, which, in turn, takes pressure off of nearby areas causing slippage (if that makes sense). Let me try to get a picture of what I mean this evening.
--Dave

Thanks a lot for the clarification, I really appreciate it.
Will be waiting for the Pic, to get a better ... picture

One good other purpose that I remembered for the riker mounts (and what I use the six I kept for) is storing bits of ribbon, metal kolodki, etc... They stack well, and with the glass top, I can see what I'm getting at.
--Dave

Would you recommend these Riker Mounts for the purpose of storing Docs?


Again thank you very much,

Dolf