Framing a Battleflag

[callmemeier]

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[callmemeier]

stabalization idea

framing a flag like this is easy...

[callmemeier]

backside

...but i want to show the taught diagonal wire on the back.this creates a more stable frame and prevents the frame from sliding off the glass if you pick it up from the top.

[kompanie]

Just to add all the flags shown look great well done guys

[Mike H]

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Another thing to consider is putting the flag -- carefully folded for display -- into the top of a glass-top coffee table. I found this one at a local furniture store. It was on sale -- and also has drawers in it for other stuff. Very useful. It came from Haverty's.

I would cover the whole thing with a tablecloth when I was not using or enjoying the room, to keep the light out, and padded it underneath with old cotton sheets.

I am sure the conservationists will have some input on this but I thought it worked well ....

Mike

[Mike H]

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[jacquesf]

Mike, very classy. Jacques

[oldflagswanted]

...very nice flag, except ???

...I am sure the conservationists will have some input
on this but I thought it worked well ....

Mike

Mike:
Interesting way to display a very nice flag, except those are Army
streamers, LW have a more narrow ribbon and diffferent tassel.
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[Mike H]

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Interesting. According to the Brian Davis book, the streamers were identical to Army, minus the plates. I had always heard that as well.

Can you show one?

Mike

[oldflagswanted]

about LW flag (fahne) streamers

Interesting. According to the Brian Davis book,
the streamers were identical to Army, minus the plates.
I had always heard that as well. Can you show one?
Mike

Mike:
The Davis book is well done, but not 100% right,
his book fails to correctly show the LW streamers
and also the LW unit flag pole ring, as both differ
from the Army unit flag examples shown in his book.
Real LW streamers are very rare, much rarer than the
LW flags! The Army streamer ribbon width is around
4.5cm, and the LW around 4.0cm, but the best
way to tell them apart is that the LW streamer
tassels have the same thick fringe as the LW
flags, not the thin narrow fringe as on the Army
flags and the Army tassels. Wolfe now has my LW
streamers, you can ask him about a photo of same
at the next SOS or MAX show. Best I can do for now.

[Mike H]

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Wonderful info, OFW!

Mike

[CCN]

I saw some flags in a museum that looked like they were displayed in huge riker mounts. The area behind the flags were padded and the frames were made of a colored cardboard-like material. They appeared very well made and light weight. If an acid free backing is required for such a frame, is there acid free cloth material available?

[badge5050]

How about the good old, - ”stick it in the freezer for 24 hours” trick? I mean those eggs maybe rough, - but 24 or 48 hours below <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:metricconverter w:st="on" ProductID="-20 C">-20 C</st1:metricconverter> can makes even the most hardba**ed cry. ??<O</O

<CENTER>Hello kompanie:
If you frame it, and it still has moth eggs, it may still
be eaten up inside the frame by the later hatching moth
worm larve. 3-M used to make a moth spray that killed
the moth eggs, without staining the flag cloth, but they
took the product off the market due to people hazzard -
guess the stuff was too good at killing things? I have
not found a product to do the same pre-storage or pre-framing
moth egg kill job, so anyone with HOME use information
would be of interest to me (not about lab boron gas please!)





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[oldflagswanted]

about freezer debuging ???

...stick it in the freezer for 24 hours
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Hello badge5050:
Interesting idea, so I checked into it further online
and found ...
"Freezing mythology - The most enduring legend about moths is
that you can just put the affected wool in the freezer for a few
days and kill them. ...it's basically hogwash for the ordinary person.
Yes, you could kill some of the moths flying around, but you won't
get to the eggs, which are some of the toughest organisms on earth.
...This freezing thing sounds terribly scientific, and that's probably
why it's so popular these days, especially as Internet advice :-). It's
a shame it won't do you any good. Chemical warfare [is] the only way
that museum people have found to really kill moths and their eggs...
Specifically, dichlorovinyl dimethyl phosphate... ...how toxic it is? So
toxic that even the US goverment has banned it, which should tell
you something. However, it's still available in Canada..."
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