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Occasionally, I get to see some of y'all's beautiful display cases, posted on this forum. My years of finds are in drawers, on my end table, in boxes and scattered on top of my chest of drawers. A couple years ago the wife bought me some display boxes / cases. She said my areas look cluttered, and they do. When those areas are full, they go into boxes and bags and the cycle starts over. This winter I like to have a go at setting them up in wall mounted cases.
My question is; what's the procedure and how do you get the items to stay in position for a wall hanging frame type display?
Steve, You need to use more foam backing on thinner objects to keep them in place in the display frames. On thicker objects you will need to use deeper frames and less foam.
Not really difficult once you do the first frame. Use your imagination with your displays and make eye appealing displays with bullets or coins or whatever you are using.
I collected Indian artifacts for many years and made some nice displays by using say one nice arrow in the center of the frame and made a circle around it with smaller birdpoints.
Very eye appealing and it is limitless as what you can dream up for your displays. Good luck and be sure to post your frames after you get them finished.
Steve, The thickness of the backing in the frames puts pressure on the artifacts against the glass of the frames.
Like I said earlier, for thin items like coins you need to use thicker foam in the frame to push the coins tighter against the glass of the frame to keep them from moving.
Go to wally world and get some colored fabric to use in your frames. Use colors that will make your artifacts stand out against background color. Try a frame and see really how easy it is to do.
Oh,....hmmm. Just thinking out loud here. So the items sink into the foam with slight pressure on the glass. Do the items in each display have to basically, be the same thickness/depth?
If you didn't want to use foam, is there a "best" way to fasten them?
I could probably rig something that would work and look great,... problem with that is , will it hold up.
I've got hundreds of old coin findes from King Georges, large cents etc., that aren't worth much. Does any body have a clever idea on what to do with these? What do they look like tumbled?
