Displaying/storing badges
 

Hi,

Does anyone know of any nifty display or storage devices you can purchase, for cap badges. At the moment they’re all stuck in a box in bags and bubble wrap.

Thanks in advance
Rob

I put mine on A4 thin card in plastic sleeves in A4 binders. Easy to catalogue and view and store.

Thanks Alan, I’ll have a look at doing the same

STORAGE & DISPLAY
 

I use a "Really Useful Storage Box" 9ltr size which holds 4 trays, each has 15 compartments so a total of 60 cap badges can be stored. This does restrict you to around 65mm x 60mm approx. each item although the tray can be "modified" It can be a bit expensive if you need a lot of boxes. I have around 70 of these boxes brought over a period of several years.
For cloth items like shoulder titles TRF's etc I use the card and sleeve method.

Jerry

I used to use wooden paste tables for storage.
Unbolt and remove the folding legs then woodstain and varnish the tables, insert a large piece of cardboard into what is now in effect two one inch deep frames joined together with hinges.
Cover the card with white wallpaper, then with Hessian, the loose weave of the Hessian allows you to mount badges and relocate them around the card without leaving cuts in the material.
The "frames" fold shut, have a metal catch to keep them closed and a handle on top.
A handy method of storage and display but a bit cumbersome and heavy.

I never got around to using "Riker"-type flock covered compartmented trays though I quite fancied giving them a go, some are glazed, some stackable

I keep my collection of badges on A4 card, too, with the said cards placed inside Jiffy bags, which are then further contained in box files - I get the files from Pound Land and the card from either B&M or our local Coleman’s stationary shop.

Rather like, Alan, I do this for the purposes of accessibility and naturally the frequent rearranging of the card content; that is, until such a day I am content with representative badges of a pattern, type and variations of such to each of the six regiments I collect to. I’ll hasten to add: which is a very unlikely prospect for some years to come.

This is my somewhat unceremonious assembly of the six patterns (plus types and variations of a patt.) concerning the ORs Indian made, 25th Dragoons badges.

I keep all my badges on A4 size light board, put them in a suspension file and put them into a filing cabinet with a sheet of bubble rap in front of the badges, you can then wright on the tab inserts what is in the file.
Regards Terry

Displaying badges
 

I have tried and used most methods, here are a few examples:

Riker box last on first row. Expensive but easy to re-arrange with glazed tops/fronts.

I also use A3 albums for cloth badges mounted on black card in A3 plastic sleeves as in 4th from left in second row.

Also A2 mounting card as last on second row.

Tim

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Attachment 214582How i like to do mine. Box frame from the Range. Frame painted with model paint. Coloured felt glued to back board. Doing a RM one at the mo.