Conventions And Shows.

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5% for "us" is not bad. I do not go to shows, though I am tempted for next years SOS, just to see certian people ( cheaper than flying to Russia).

Here is what happens (i speak here for cloth collectors and dealers, not about orders and medals): The Russians (from over there) like to come over once a year to see friends and talk business, etc. They tried a few years back in the late 90's and early 00's to do the MAX show, but were really discouraged and felt it was an "all German" club. Many gave up on going to it.

The SOS seems to be more open to non German collectors and so they like to meet up there. In the past 3 years it has become a good show for Russian cloth as these guys each tend to bring over 2 or 3 good items for the show and then loan them to dealers for display. Thats why certain dealers who might mostly do orders and medals will have a few nice cloth items at the SOS. After the SOS things get moved around again.

I have spoken to a couple of them this week and though nobody sold much in the way of high end items (rare to actually sell high end cloth at the shows; good for display though) they are all happy with the SOS over the MAX.

DougD

How do the Russian-dwelling folk get all their wares over here? Some of the dealers had a ton of stuff.