David T. Alexander writes:

I read the article in last week's E-Sylum on the Hall of Fame for Great Americans medals. I have a number of these albums which I bought on eBay a few years ago. Each album has one page with 12 holes for 1-3/4" medals. There is no lettering for individual medals in the series-- that is, each album is the same.

The albums are about 10-1/2' x 8-1/2" x 1" in the shape of a shallow box. The front cover opens like a book. The page to holdthe medal is not attached to the album, but there is a ribbon to help remove the page and see the back side of the medals. Since there are only 12holes for medals in each album, it would require 8 albums for either the full set of 1-3/4" bronze or silver medals. I have never seen an albumfor the larger 3" bronze medals. These medals are probably too large and heavy for an album.

My experience is that the albums don't function very well. The medals are relatively heavy and the hole tolerances are such that the medals often fall out of the album. I would call these large folders instead of albums. There are no slides to hold the medals in place.

The cover page of these albums is nice. I used a couple of these cover pages from albums in bad shape as a cover page in 3-ring binders where I store my medals.

I have several of these albums in nice shape. If David Lange's is interested in an album for his collection, he can contact me and I will be happy to send him one.

Dave Lange adds:

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
MORE ON HALL OF FAME FOR GREAT AMERICANS MEDALS (www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v19n24a14.html)