Hello all
I would like to share with you my ongoing collecting project.
I specialise in collecting German Imperial medals and I try to obtain fieldpost with pictures of recipients wearing their medals.
I used to collect TR as well as German Imperial and only the medals, which I displayed in medal cases. As time went on I realised that the medals are just trinkets of war and not really researchable. Also the price of medals keep going up and up and my budget stops me just buying and buying! So I needed another 'edge' to my collecting of medals. I sold off my TR for many reasons and came up with the idea of German Imperial medals and fieldpost/photos linking a story with the medal.
The medals I collect are not the actual medal that the recipients are wearing in the photos but just a 'link' to the medal.
I keep these medals and feldpost/photos in a beautiful English Victorian photo album which has a leather cover and gilt edged page leaves, brass clasp (although I guess this will not function as I fill up the album with medals, but thats cool with me).
I feel that the way I am preserving/cataloging my medals is very satisfying and I can get this book out whenever I feel like it and look through and peruse my trinkets and photos, wheras when in display cases I was forever taking the case off the wall to get close ups. I feel that I have found my 'Specialism' in collecting.
I am always trawling through sites to look for period feldpost/photos that I can research and put a link to my medals so if anybody wishes to offload any that may be of interest to me then please drop me a PM.
All the best
Rob
I would like to share with you my ongoing collecting project.
I specialise in collecting German Imperial medals and I try to obtain fieldpost with pictures of recipients wearing their medals.
I used to collect TR as well as German Imperial and only the medals, which I displayed in medal cases. As time went on I realised that the medals are just trinkets of war and not really researchable. Also the price of medals keep going up and up and my budget stops me just buying and buying! So I needed another 'edge' to my collecting of medals. I sold off my TR for many reasons and came up with the idea of German Imperial medals and fieldpost/photos linking a story with the medal.
The medals I collect are not the actual medal that the recipients are wearing in the photos but just a 'link' to the medal.
I keep these medals and feldpost/photos in a beautiful English Victorian photo album which has a leather cover and gilt edged page leaves, brass clasp (although I guess this will not function as I fill up the album with medals, but thats cool with me).
I feel that the way I am preserving/cataloging my medals is very satisfying and I can get this book out whenever I feel like it and look through and peruse my trinkets and photos, wheras when in display cases I was forever taking the case off the wall to get close ups. I feel that I have found my 'Specialism' in collecting.
I am always trawling through sites to look for period feldpost/photos that I can research and put a link to my medals so if anybody wishes to offload any that may be of interest to me then please drop me a PM.
All the best
Rob
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