Securing coins/ ribboned medallions

[Kathy]

Hi,

Another day,another challenge.....
Can anyone let me know the best method to secure coins and ribboned medallions to mount board.

I was thinking of using Velcro or spot of silicone to prevent the ribboned medallion from moving and to secure the coin. I am just worried about marking the items, should they ever be removed from the frame.

Thanks in advance.

Kathy

[Roboframer]

Fastening is the way to go, the ribbons could be passed through slits in the mounting board and/or stitched in place and the medallions could be fastened at their pivot points, but that, no matter how tight they were fastened, would still allow some flopping forward.

Have a look at the very last method in this link.

[A3DFramer]

The may not be the best way for your particular example, but I offer some different options; Silicone on the back of medals is difficult to fully remove without resorting to cutting away.

Fixing can be time consuming, techniques suitable for conservation framing may make the product of the display maker non competitive.

Laying barrier layers to provide a glue surface to give a bondable surface compatible for a quick adhesive suitable for the display back can be preferable to spoiling an artifact for future use.

Brown gummed tape on the back of metal objects when fully dried off with a hair drying, will give a reversible glue point for more aggressive bonding substances such as hot melt or even epoxy resins.

I have seen masking tape on the back of tin plate allow the removal of silicone without the use of a sharp blade.

The advantage of BGWT is it can be soaked off easily, but is quick to apply and has non invasive properties towards many substances that may be put into displays.

For large numbers of medallions I have got the permission of the client to paste a non aggressive barrier layer onto the back of the object so that a quicker method of bonding can be used to fix to the surface of the display back this has varied from metal, glass, ceramics, textiles and wood.

[pichousepreston]

Hi, I always cut slits in the board for the ribbons to go through and just a small piece of fuse wire through the board around where the ribbon goes through the medallion will hold it pretty tightly. If you cut a circle in the board, so it is a tight fit for the coin, it will hold itself in place. These ways use not glue at all. Lion also sell clear plastic coin holders that go through the board and hold a coin in place

[Roboframer]

Adhesives can fail in one of three ways - the surface of the object, the surface of the mounting board and the adhesive itself. The adhesive method above makes for two types of adhesive and adds an extra, and very weak, surface - increasing the likelihood of failure.

Conservation aside, fastening works - it just happens to be easily reversible with no harm to the object/artwork and although some methods may take more time .... and maybe more skill, to apply, should a time come when they need to be reversed ... maybe just to change the mounting board colour - they can be reversed in seconds; by anyone.