Interesting discussion! Thats what it all about!

I was thinking of a thread on the papers that certify a object! Things have changed since the hobby started after the war!

From Attwood to Johnson,TW,Kelley Hicks,Bill Shea Craig G, just to name a few who have wrote papers to certify items!

Not including the guys that wrote books or early reference things!

Much is deemed way out of date for the times! But in its time thats how the hobby evolved!

Now face book,forums and electronics provide info in a instant! New day and world!

Remeber when collectors waited for snail mail and a sale list! Der Frog and that list! Gauliter or something! That was a early collectors
tool!

God help us even Manions and others were a eager item we waited for!

Things look so out of date now,but in its day was cutting edge!

Craig wrote a book on Honor Rings! How did that go! Any of many coffee table books with superb pictures captured are attention!


Refrence books are never cheap! Many colectors have always wanted something for free! Others gladly paid!

Who is right? Depends I quess on if it helps you the collector!


How many folks have owned or handled a real SS ring?

How many have done the same with Honor daggers,SS chained daggers? Etc!


I thank you for your thoughts and ideas!

Only time will prove any of us right!


PVON