How To Store And Display Awards.

[j h beers]

Real silver is among the most fragile of substances. Ask anyone who collects British medals.

I know what you mean: discovering that a silver British Crimean medal (with "Sebastopol" bar - what else?) had turned almost black because of the cheap plastic medal envelope that I had used to store it made me more aware of the chemical properties of a lot of things I once thought were "safe."

My basic idea was that awrds made of Russian silver - albeit with a modicum of proper care - will last much longer than Third Reich wards made of badly plated German "kreigsmetall, " i.e. a mixture of zinc and God knows what else...

jhb