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Medals and insignia
Identifying, caring for, and valuing service medals and the insignia that come with them. Most of these pieces arrive through an estate, and most arrive without a word of explanation. These notes help you read them.
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Caring for inherited service medals and insignia
The fastest way to cut the value of a medal in half is to polish it. Here is how to care for what you inherited.
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How to identify and value military medals from an estate
Most medals I see did not come from a collector. They came from a family clearing out a house. Here is how to read what you found.