07-27-2015, 02:35 PM
I've usually left the logistics and design of displaying items to whoever I've lent items to to display. There have been many over the years, Museums, pubs, barracks and others. If you look through the forum (maybe using the search term "frame") you'll find many various displayed I've created over the years. I did once display all the DPRK items in the collection but it would now take up about 100 square yards to do so so that's not happening.
I've found cheap solutions for displays is to use fabric covered cardboard. You can bend, cut, hole, etc cardboard with ease and throw it away and replace easily and no-one will know if you cover it with fabric. It also makes things lighter which is a great help when it comes to transport.
Unfortunately for me the luxury of vast displays (and the time and space needed to create them) have taken a back seat to the more pressing need of storage of items. There are photographs of some of the thousands of undocumented awards stored in envelopes in this thread but here are examples of how I store many of the c2,100 documented groups in the collection. There are over 30 of these boxes worth. Each recipient has their own sealed bag (if the items are A4 or small - named with list of contents, which often has to be located and added to) and the whole storage issue can be rather overwhelming. A crime of passion at this stage I believe.
I've found cheap solutions for displays is to use fabric covered cardboard. You can bend, cut, hole, etc cardboard with ease and throw it away and replace easily and no-one will know if you cover it with fabric. It also makes things lighter which is a great help when it comes to transport.
Unfortunately for me the luxury of vast displays (and the time and space needed to create them) have taken a back seat to the more pressing need of storage of items. There are photographs of some of the thousands of undocumented awards stored in envelopes in this thread but here are examples of how I store many of the c2,100 documented groups in the collection. There are over 30 of these boxes worth. Each recipient has their own sealed bag (if the items are A4 or small - named with list of contents, which often has to be located and added to) and the whole storage issue can be rather overwhelming. A crime of passion at this stage I believe.
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