About Us

Curriculum Vitae

JEFFREY ANDREW SCHRAMEK

Personal
Born in 1953 in Chicago, Illinois, USA, where the family lived until 1961, when they moved to Morton Grove, Illinois, where he passed through primary and secondary school.

Higher Education
College: undergraduate
Ripon College, Ripon, Wisconsin, USA; completed a B.A degree in History

Graduate studies
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois; completed an M.A degree in History

Professional studies
Chicago Police Department, Metropolitan Training Program; graduated/certified as an Illinois Local Law Enforcement Officer.

Professional Associations
Orders and Medals Society of America (O.M.S.A.), Member since 1983:
Presented a scholarly seminar at OMSA's 1994 national convention, concerning "Styles of Collecting" of historical award insignia;

Orders and Medals Research Society (of U.K.); State Microscopical Society of Illinois.

Military Service
U.S. Army, USAR Control Group (ROTC), Honorable Discharge, 1974.

Work Experience
City of Chicago Department of Aviation, Security Guard and Special Police Officer for over 26 years; retired on pension.

Editing of books by Joseph L. Daleiden: The Science of Morality: The Individual, Community, and Future Generations, and The American Dream: Can It Survive the 21st Century?

Entrepreneurial activity concerning collecting, dealing, brokering and consulting in regards to historical award objects, from 1987 to present.

Travel
Visits to London, England; and Stockholm, Sweden, consulting with personnel at the Swedish Royal Coin Cabinet Museum, the Nobel Foundation, and the Nobel Prize diploma-binding firm Falth & Hassler AB.

Media
Interviews about award-objects, on local television in Chicago, Illinois, late 1990's, e.g. on WGN-TV Morning News;

Subject of articles/segments (concentrating on Sir J. Chadwick's Nobel Prize set) in the national and international press, e.g.: "Nobel for Sale" Fermi News, February 5, 1999; "Neutrons for all", in Frank Munger's column, Knoxville News Sentinel, November 5, 2003; and "Nobel Price: way over Rs 10 lakh" in the Economic Times of India, 7 April 2004 (regarding the stolen R. Tagore Nobel Prize medal caper).

Interview on SVT1/ SVT2 (Swedish national television), broadcast during intermission of Nobel Prize ceremonies, 10 December 2006.

Major Exhibits
Northwestern University Library, Evanston, Illinois, USA.
Philanthropic Honors
Royal Association of Knights Bachelor, (founded by King Peter II of Yugoslavia, a hero for the Allied cause in WWII, in 1970) Associate Member, certificate number 46, 1992.

Community activities
Presentations about collecting of award-objects, in Chicago metropolitan area, e.g. at Northbrook Rotary Club.

Contributions (in person or via email) to debates about the economy/financial markets, with Jean-Claude Trichet (President of the European Central Bank), Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz, Simon Johnson ( former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund), Joseph Bast (President of the Heartland Institute), Dean Baker (co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research), and widely-respected web-based experts Clive Maund, FOFOA, and Michael "Mish" Shedlock; such contributions have been particularly frequent as an active, regular participant at the semi-annual Chicago Resource Expo).

Occasional panel member, Association for the Development of Philosophy Teaching, semi-annual conferences, at Roosevelt University (Chicago, Illinois) and Benedictine University (Lisle, Illinois), 1990's;

Jeffrey Schramek, M.A., research and historical context
Kathy Foulke and Kenneth Goldberg, international social liaison
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We have had some of our Awards of Outstanding International Importance on display, at every convention of the Orders and Medals Society of America , since 1991.
Our expertise has been consulted by responsible persons in this Society in the most significant circumstances (e.g. from the standpoint of protecting the integrity of the Society's reputation for displaying only authentic specimens). These conventions are attended by major collectors and dealers from around the world. The public is permitted into these conventions on a Saturday; in 2012, the convention will be held in Dallas, Texas, on 18 August. We cordially invite interested parties to meet with us to discuss any aspects of the collecting of awards. From 2008 on, when we sell at this Convention, our prices are more flexible for those who pay with bank checks, or currency of any major economy (e.g. euros, yen, Candos) .
We have also been consulted by scholars and others, (e.g. insurance firms) about such issues as (market) evaluations of award objects, esp. Nobel Prizes.