Boxed medal with grouping

[CandaceStonestreet86]

What's the best way to display a boxed medal that belongs with a grouping? Most will fit nicely in a riker box but the air medal in it's coffin box won't.

Any Ideas?

[Airborne-Hunter]

One guy I know uses double depth rikers and cuts out the batting.

One guy I know takes shadow boxes and loops silk ribbon to hold the case down. He glues the middle of the ribbon down in the shadow box first and ties a knot inside the case and closes the lid to support it. He usually does two ribbons.
 

Another guy just sets them in shadow boxes and doesn't move them.

Another guy I know only displays the really most stellar groups and those he just dedicates a whole display case, part of a large display case or a really nice shadow box. He turns up alot of stuff and can only display the truly incredible. He usually stores everything else in really nice storage boxes. He probably has 100 medal groups he's found at markets and sales, but he pretty much only displays the DSC, NC, or SS groups. Or groups that are really rather unique.

[CandaceStonestreet86]

Thanks Airborne-Hunter for the great ideas!

I don't have anything too fancy yet, but what I do have I want to display/preserve well. You've given me something to think on!

[jmar]

I purchase the deep Ryker mounts and cut out the foam where the cases go. They drop in nicely and do not shift.

 

This way the group stays together and displays nicely.

 

[CandaceStonestreet86]

Yup, I have to agree, cutting out the batting is the way! I added some fabric to make it pop

[S1991]

On 1/8/2025 at 11:37 PM, jmar said:

I purchase the deep Ryker mounts and cut out the foam where the cases go. They drop in nicely and do not shift.

 

This way the group stays together and displays nicely.

 

That's one way to do it of course. I decided to keep the boxes out of the display. Just have the medals in a riker, add a note to the boxes and have those stored away.

 

Here is one riker I added a velvet insert to yesterday. I'll size the riker up as I want to add a info card. Still need to decide on color.. Either the dark blue one or the black one, I actually like both.