Service Certificate 1926

[skeptic]

Early recognition of an Eagle from the 1920's leaving a troop with an "honorable discharge" with his promise to continue to live by the precepts of Scouting.

[skeptic]

[RememberSchiff]

Learned something new. That might be something to present a scout who ages out regardless of rank?

[skeptic]

I am going to try and copy it so that I can manipulate it to have blanks where specific names and dates are.  Then it could have such a use but keep most of the historical integrity.  I will have to scan the back and share it also.  It has a form to list all the awards of the scout, and this one has all the dates for his ranks and merit badges listed.  It is odd to me that in my half century of finding stuff, this is the first version of this I have ever seen.  Like many of the old certificates, it is somehow more personal to the intent and recognition and also just simply better designed.  Since the cert is actually sealed in the frame I am not sure how a scan will come out, and do not want to open it up.

 

Edited August 21, 2018 by skeptic

[RememberSchiff]

Maybe ... create a document with a 3x3 table.  The center cell will be the text "...according to the records of the Boy Scouts of America..." with editable fields that you create anew. The bordering cells, which may be merged, will be jpg's of the original document art. The jpg's will be from cropped photos or scans. 

Some problems - glass reflection (you said you did not want to remove from frame), keeping scale,  single color background...

Plan B: find a sharp Graphics Arts major. 

Others here likely have better suggestions. 

Interesting project. 

My $0.02

 

Edited August 26, 2018 by RememberSchiff

[SSScout]

Very nice.  One must remember that such artwork was hand drawn, inked and then offset printed.  Such a job might be several days in production.  

My father was a "show card artist" way before he met mom.  He's the fellow who would letter. ink, illustrate the advertisements in the store windows, or proof for the theatrical posters. I have some of his original art and lettering style books, also his stylos (pens ) nibs and brushes.....    Fancy calligraphy?   More's the pity , mere printing legibly is hard to come by these days.....

[Saltface]

Here's one not in a frame if you want to scan it: https://www.scoutstuff4sale.com/1930-national-certificate-of-service-presented/

I could clean it up in Illustrator if I had a better image.

[RosaBurke]

On 8/27/2018 at 10:59 PM, Saltface said:

Here's one not in a frame if you want to scan it: https://www.scoutstuff4sale.com/1930-national-certificate-of-service-presented/

I could clean it up in Illustrator if I had a better image.

Do you know any good scanning apps?

[John-in-KC]

Sometimes, it’s best to let a copy service do the scan. 
 

most copiers are digital, and most can scan/email the pdf or jpeg to you.