Collecting Badges Expands Knowledge

At one point, each of the collectors always thinks about how to organize, organize and store their collection when it becomes too voluminous. Also, there was no exception to collecting icons - faleristics. The entire collection must be arranged and arranged so that it has a visual and representative appearance. Especially collectors appreciate the ability to easily find the right instance.

The article presents ways to store icon collections. To do this, you need: sheets of paper, foam rubber or fabric, folder-binders with rings, small slats, hole punch, if necessary, transparent files.

1. Collecting , the most common and simple way to store the entire volume - place it on the fabric stretched over the frame. Also, for this method, you can use foam rubber or whatman. Using this type of storage, the collection can be placed and organized into groups by adding signatures to them. When storing the collection on a cloth in an open form, it must be carefully taken care of. Because dust and dirt are serious enemies of all kinds of collections.

2. The second method is suitable for storing large collections, they can be placed in archive folders-folders. To do this, you need to take a dense fabric, whatman or foam rubber, to make blanks in A4 format. Use a hole punch to make holes in the material used, the arrangement of which will correspond to the position of the fixtures in the folders.

Collecting badges requires placing them, according to the structure, while leaving room for comments. And for greater convenience, you can move sheets with attached icons - blank sheets of paper, which will be placed all the necessary information about the sections of the collection. For greater safety, the sheets with icons can be placed in transparent files, in which case the hole puncher can not be used. Careless storage of the collection can cause criticism and reproaches from other collectors. Of course, you can use a ready-made archive folder with stitched files, but this leads to difficulties when it becomes necessary to extract or add new sheets.

A large number of archive folders, and, correspondingly, the number of sheets in them, greatly complicates the work of collectors in finding the right instance or a whole group. Therefore, for a faster and more accurate search for icons of the subject matter you need:

- assign an individual number to each folder;

- number all the sheets in each folder;

- compile a small register with the necessary information.

3. Depending on the preferences of collectors, instead of archival folders, you can prepare a simple cardboard box. When using cardboard boxes, you need to protect the surface of the badges from damage and scratches, for this you can use pieces of very dense fabric placed between the sheets with badges.

4. Now special folders are available for storing icons and, if desired, they can be found and freely purchased.

5. As well as special boxes (boxes with a transparent cover, inside which lie strips of foam rubber). However, this method has a minus in the form of a condensate, which can collect under the lid and harm your exhibits.

Often, collecting involves the use of several ways to store their collections, for example, a part of the icons are placed on the cloth (paper, foam rubber) and fastened to the wall for clarity and attract attention, and the bulk is added to the archive folders to save space.