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To highlight the advantages of collecting awards as compared to art, coins, etc. Here you will find portable monuments, true heirlooms for the human community, hitherto seen only in museums. Aesthetically pleasing objects of great importance can express humanity's ultimate quest in modern times to build peace and prosperity, and to understand the world; these objects are ideal for someone looking to lend gravitas to an office or other significant room.

MUSEOLOGY
Only the great dealers in antiquities, documents, religious relics, or art consistently carry objects of comparable gravitas, and even they often fail to do justice to the human context in which the objects were used. We at World-Class Awards consider context to be of prime importance, so that when we offer medals, diplomas, etc., we concentrate on the recipient as well as on the issuing institution. In this respect, we are at the cutting edge,
not only in the specific field of awards, but in the general categories of museology (the study of museums) and cultural criticism. We at World-Class Awards see collecting as comprising aspects of both popular and high culture, and thus see both collectors and dealers as worthy of particular attention.
We at World-Class Awards see the identity and biography of the recipient being just as germane as the award itself, because receipt of an award of this caliber was likely to be among the central events in the recipient's life. Award ceremonies are generally major, and sometimes mega-social events. Awarding institutions usually maintained complete lists of personnel who received each class and "denomination" of each award; books exist devoted to biographical entries about recipients of particular major awards, e.g. Heroes of the Soviet Union. To us at World-Class Awards, a person's awards substantially sum up the person's life as it related to the context of the culture in which the person lived.
One other main criterion by which we determine whether an object or group is worthy of our attention, is the extent to which the relationship, between the issuing institution and the recipient, pertains to historian William H. McNeill's conception of the process of historical change. He emphasizes the evolution of the means of interaction between societies as the single greatest factor in bringing about change within societies. We at World-Class Awards regard awards from one society to persons of another society to be of special interest.

STATESMEN AND HEROINES
By "Statesmen" we mean all persons who have decisively effected public affairs, not merely diplomats. Our stress on heroines involves not only women whose specific deeds directly effected public affairs as much as did statesmen, but also women whose example, if it was not so decisive, nonetheless epitomized the rise of women in modern times.
AUTHENTICITY
Authentication of these awards is easier than of art, and much easier than of autographs, since the institutions presenting the awards had a major interest in guaranteeing that forgery of award-objects would be brutally difficult; hence we at World-Class Awards need not hesitate to guarantee the authenticity of our material.
VALUE
For years we at World-Class Awards have been amazed that such objects would be available at any price, much less at prices affordable to persons who lack massive wealth; it is our good fortune that the collecting market is so much less efficient than, say, stock markets. With the gradual emergence of a truly world culture, this inefficiency is bound to diminish over time (such an emergence can only enhance the number of people who appreciate the difference between a world-class object and an object the significance of
which is limited to some locality). Our travels include trips to the facilities where award-objects have been produced, such as to Stockholm (home of Nobel Prizes).

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Jeffrey Schramek, M.A., research and historical context
Robert Sadlek, (published authority on) physical aspects and authentication
Between us are over 60 years of collecting experience.
Kathy Foulke and K. Goldberg, international social liaison

We have had some of our world-class awards on display, at every convention of the Orders and Medals Society of America , since 1983.
Our expertise has been consulted by responsible persons in this Society in the most significant circumstances 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 2003, the convention will be held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 16 August. We cordially invite interested parties to meet with us to discuss
any aspects of the collecting of awards.

Also membership in: Orders and Medals Research Society (of U.K.)
and the State Microscopical Society of Illinois

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(World-Class Awards to Statesmen and Heroines)

"Without peer in this realm or any other!"

is our motto at World Class Awards, and we would like to welcome you to the exciting world of collecting world-class awards and objects that have belonged to statesmen and heroines. Awards and objects of this caliber and quality can be an education for anyone potentially interested in collecting in this exciting field. Whether it be a women's suffrage hunger strike medal or a Nobel Prize , the spectrum of awards is vast enough for anyone with even a cursory interest in historical events or the people who participated in them.

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