VintageMeld

I’m looking to put together a post sometime in the near future about how collectors are storing and/or displaying their collections. If you’d care to share, please feel free to reply with any info.

Mark Kasal bought this from me:

The Chautauquan, June 1890 issue

It’s a June 1890 issue of The Chautauquan Magazine, which I luckily listed as including a piece about General Crook. Precisely this piece: Major-General George Crook, USA by Major-General O.O. Howard.

George Crook (1828-1890), according to Wikipedia, was a career U.S. Army officer best known for his distinguished service in the Civil War and the Indian Wars.

When I asked Mark the question he was kind enough to send back this super photo of his collection on display at the 2007 Company of Military Historians annual meeting:

Mark's General Crook Display

Mark asked for some suggestions for displaying the magazines in his collection, but what I see here includes an issue of Harper’s Weekly mounted towards the bottom left of the rear display wall and some other magazines as well as ephemeral items similarly protected in plastic and mounted to the wall.  Combined with the three-dimensional items and the smaller valuables housed in display cases on the table in the foreground I think it’s a fantastic display!

Close-up on left area of Mark's General Crook display. See Harper's Weekly at bottom left and I believe a Harper's print at top right.

Thank you, Mark, for your contribution.  Hopefully it will give some others ideas, as hopefully all the entries in this series do.