Do you polish your medals?

[byterock]

It a funny thing that many of us who also collected Commonwealth medals and groupings use to like a good set of gongs that were well polished.

This meant the vet that owned them wore them and was proud of them.

I was never attracted to minty out of the packet CW medals like many are with TR decorations, myself included.

Of course like TR items if I got a good 'salty' CW group I never polished them I just left them as is, Singular items I use to polish or at least clean up a bit. One example is the Canadian War Volunteer Service Medal, it was silver and could be dipped quite easily to clean it up an improve its price a little..

Sort of the opposite of TR collectors.

cheers

[jwburchell]

I have read this thread with interest and find it to be a good topic indeed! However, with all due respect, should it not be moved to the "Conservation" (or a discussion) forum? Perhaps a Moderator can determine.