Preservation of Rare US Military Insignia

[100trueneutral]

Were they trying to preserve the actual patches or the pages that they were mounted on? It wasn't clear. Most of the patches here seemed to be in perfect condition.

[Shadowsta13]

It's always great to see history preserved like this. i personally only have a very small collection 5 sergeant patches, 2/3 of an airforce patch (had been eaten away by bugs) and a one of a kind Philippine resistance money and a Japanese occupation dollar.

[nypd67p]

Thats sick

[jjlwis]

great video!

very cute Lab Techs!!

[skowheganme]

I have collected US Military insignia including decorations and medals for 52 years; currently I have 40,000 items including every patch seen here and yes even the YANK Correspondence patch. The rarest patch, perhaps, is the Philippine Scouts; I paid 2650 dollars for mine over five years ago and have never regretted the purchase! Someday I will travel to NYC again, this time to see this wonderful collection and the preservation of each page of those scrapbooks - Good job !

[strattoncaster508]

I am a patch collecter too, i have about 100 of them. Extrordinary Video!

[ichewtoast111]

good for him!

[FREISandFAGAN]

I just put restoration into the search field here on YouTube and this showed up. Very heart warming story and great work by the NYPL team and kudos to Chester Burger for collecting all those great patches.

[Czaendermajer]

althought i preffer the german third reich insignias over every other.....But

this is excelently awesome i give 5/5

yeah ;)

[slayerrat]

excellent video.

[Viktoryproductions66]

Excellent Video! Excellent! This is top quality stuff. There are very few good videos on restoring military items and even less on restoring patches. At least these patches are in the hands of professionals so they can be preserved for a long period of time. As a side note, I am an amateur preserver of militaria myself, I know myler covers and folders are indespensible materials for the preserver when preserving paper , document, and clothed based miltaria.

[fangman666]

Thank you so much for posting. I have a been a Military Collector for over 25 year's. I think it is a great hobby and a great way to learn about history. I have learned alot by seeing this Video. There were a few patches that I have never seen before. Once again thank you very much for posting. V V