Thursday, December 11, 2008

Nifty cases

The key to a good collection is storage and display.

I have stumbled upon two different cases that I don't think a lot of people know about.

Both are essentially Riker mounts, but the first one has a foam insert with vertical slits in it. You place a small object in the slit, and pressure holds it in place. I have tried one for my small ACW bullet collection and it works pretty darn well. I print out small labels as to what and where the item was found, and can attach it to the foam using a short pin (hint, these are known as sequin pins). Sadly, it only comes in red backing, but what can ya do?
see then at Sgt. striker's web site http://sgtriker.com/flock1.htm

And, for collar disks I have been using a similar riker mount with 1" button cases inside. I cut the foam insert to half the thickness, and it works just swell. The trick is, however, to use the WHITE foam for the Black WW1 disks, and the BLACK foam for WW2 brass disks.

Again, the link to Riker's is http://sgtriker.com/flock3.htm

I don't know Sgt. Riker, but I have ordered a few things from him and they came swiftly, and had no problems.