How To Store And Display Awards.

[j h beers]

I'd have to ask how safe the velvet, cardboard, and wood are for the medals? It may be pretty, but is it chemically safe?

Ed

Unless you bought the fabric, the cardboard or the wood from a firm that supplies specially produced versions of these items to museums, all three are capable of damaging medals either through direct contact or through the emission of chemical vapors.

Be glad you are collecting soviet/russian medals that tend to be made of real silver or gold. Not so a lot of WW II German stuff: in addition to the dangers presented by the materials used to manufacture display mediums, most Third Riech awards have plating that is chemically reacting to the base metals they were made from.

At least, with some caution, soviet collectors will still have presentable collections in another ten or twenty years. Our friends who collect third reich stuff, however, will most likely have cases filled with excruciatingly expensive awards that have all the sex appeal of battery terminals..

jhb