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View Poll Results: Repair or not | |||
Leave the damn thing alone! Don't mess with what looks like a period repair | 12 | 54.55% | |
Have the solder removed to make the serial number readable | 9 | 40.91% | |
Repair the enamel only | 0 | 0% | |
Remove the solder AND repair the enamel | 1 | 4.55% | |
Voters: 22. You may not vote on this poll |
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07-17-2012, 10:19 PM | #581 |
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Re: To clean or not to clean?
This one is easy - I agree with the others - leave it alone.
It would be more difficult if there was only a small patch or two of corrosion. Generally then I clean those spots because they are "damaging" the medal. I don't and won't clean to get a nice shiny medal. Patina is an important part of the story of the medal. Simon |
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07-18-2012, 02:20 AM | #582 |
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Re: To clean or not to clean?
The only thing I would remove would be the verdigris of the reverse to avoid corrosion with some vinegar, to keep the rest of the patina.
I´d leave the rest as it is.
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07-18-2012, 06:16 PM | #583 |
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Re: To clean or not to clean?
I surmise we take a much more careful approach than the veterans themselves ever took--so many vets polished their medals, wore them without regard to order of precedence, etc. But yeah, I preserve the heck out of them. Only soap and water.
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07-19-2012, 05:02 AM | #584 |
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Re: To clean or not to clean?
Thanks for all the replies everyone.
I'm gonna keep it as is :-) The thing that surprised me the most is, depite the fact that it's rusty as sin, the pin on the back still works and the metal feels really strong. I have far newer medals with pins that fel much flimsier! Tommy Oh and one more thing. Is this a Type 2 piece? Issued 47ish? The ring seems pretty U-shaped to me, even more so in real life. Cheers |
07-19-2012, 12:23 PM | #585 |
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Re: Busted, Broken, Beaten but Beautiful
Here's a recent acquisition..research pending. Not broken, but definitely plenty of that salty factor.
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07-19-2012, 12:28 PM | #586 |
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Re: Busted, Broken, Beaten but Beautiful
Love it!
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08-21-2012, 03:13 PM | #587 |
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Re: To clean or not to clean?
This is my first comment on this forum. For the record I've been collecting Soviet militaria since about 1990 when I was in Berlin.
I'd clean it up. This is not the condition in which the veteran would have worn this particular campaign medal, so why not make it look presentable? |
08-21-2012, 04:02 PM | #588 |
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Re: To clean or not to clean?
I would leave it as is. I sometimes remove dirt from medals (like the stuff that often surrounds the OPW hammer and sickle), but other than that I don't touch them. I absolutely never replace ribbons or suspensions.
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08-21-2012, 08:04 PM | #589 |
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Re: To clean or not to clean?
Leave it alone.
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09-03-2012, 08:53 AM | #590 |
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Re: Damaged, Repair, Clean, Preserve Soviet Awards.
Now returning tp the topic of Great War or earlier ground dug awards, I recently found this Austro-Hungarian War Medal Type 2 (For actions 1873-1901) for sale after being ground dug in Slovenia. As with all ground dug items the story is not certain but this was probably lost during "routine" rather than combat (although it is not impossible for it to be lost due to action), in the late 19th or earliest part of the 20th century.
This certainly wasn't "smashed up" to cash in as it cost me less than £2 delivered.
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