Displaying Solbuch and documents

[Steve Flanagan]

Guys Ive been delaying displaying a fairly rare Heer snipers solbuch that I have the only accepted version of the sniper badge to go with it. Has his EKII document, and the preliminary sniper badge paperwork. Purchased this from a fellow member who took excellent photos of the main pages, but how do I display this in a shadowbox or frame?

[jacquesf]

Steve, I would suggest you make high quality scans of the paperwork and display it with the other items, while you keep the original paperwork stored away in an archival friendly environment. Paper will fade if displayed. J

[markus]

As a heart-and-soul documents collector I cannot agree more with Jacques.

Sunlight will ultimately destroy your paper items for all times.

I am in the process of setting up a new collection room and now have a lot of wallspace for photos and documents. I will have high res scans made and then frame the prints. For display purposes it is enough. You can hardly tell the difference from a short distance if it is a print or the original. In the case of Soldbücher you can actually display various pages in one frame and not only show two pages!

At the same time you can keep your priced original pieces locked away for security reasons should you prefer to.

Another nice feature of copying/printing items is the fact that you can actually enlarge photos or even documents. While I would never enlarge an award document, I am planning to have some of my Michael Wittmann photos from his estate enlarged at high resolution. I'm sure that way the Tigers will be a lot more impacting for example.

Anyway, just thought I'd share since I feel strongly for documents....

Cheers,
Markus

[Adam S.]

That's a great idea Jacques. That way you can display individual pages also. High quality scans/prints will LOOK like the real thing while on display.

[jacquesf]

Steve, I would suggest you make high quality scans of the paperwork and display it with the other items, while you keep the original paperwork stored away in an archival friendly environment. Paper will fade if displayed. J

Steve , this is how I did my sniper display. All paper are scans. J

[PZKG]

What a lovely display Jacques!

[collector19]

Jacques, who is the soldier? Any cances of seeing more from the soldier/display?

[Steve Flanagan]

Display

Thank you guys! I will do as you say. And wow what a display my friend

[norman]

Jaquesf Display

Jaquesf your collection display is very impressive and very well set out. Thanks for showing.
Regards
Norman

[MrMiler]

Steve , this is how I did my sniper display. All paper are scans. J

Very nice display! This gave me some new inspiration.
Also a good tip to make copies.
But, if you frame with high quality UV-glas, would the documents not be safe?

Surely this must also be a concern for people collecting art, but they still have their paintings on the wall.

[markus]

Very nice display! This gave me some new inspiration.
Also a good tip to make copies.
But, if you frame with high quality UV-glas, would the documents not be safe?

Surely this must also be a concern for people collecting art, but they still have their paintings on the wall.

Paintings on canvas are not white low quality sheets of paper and do not bleach, though through time also exposed to the elements.

Artistic prints, pencil sketches, lithos are usually on museum quality paper and we have those all under high quality UV glass.

Markus