New Zealand Medals Ltd - Military Antiques and Medals. Medal Mounting & Restoration
We congratulate Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second on the occasion of her Diamond Jubilee, marking 60 years as Queen of The United Kingdom and the Commonwealth.
New Zealand Medals Ltd is focused on providing high-quality service and customer satisfaction - we will do everything we can to meet your expectations in delivering a quality medal mounting service.
 
FAIR GO. In light of what we anticipate to be considerable interest in the expert opinion sought from us by TVNZ's Fair Go we refer you to the "When Medal Mounting Goes Wrong" section of our site.
We are a small professional company offering medal mounting and restoration services to veterans, their families, and to the uniformed services.
 
So why entrust your medals to us?
  • It is important to note that we do know what we are doing. Aubrey Bairstow has an acute knowledge of British and Commonwealth medals from 1792 to present. He is a consultant to museums and media and is acknowledged as an expert in his field. He is a retired fraud investigator and a former collector of medals with a detailed knowledge of how to research people and their service.
  • We are not a part time business. We work full time undertaking medal mounting and restoration.
  • We are one of the most cost effective mounting and framing firms around and there are no hidden costs at all. Medal mounting is $15 per medal.
  • Unlike most other medal mounters we carry comprehensive liability insurance cover to protect your medals whilst they are in our care.
  • We pride ourself on our prompt completion time and quality of workmanship.
  • We only use new materials and our ribbons, brooches and ribbon bars are custom made for us.
    PRESENT TURNAROUND FOR MOUNTING IS AROUND 14 DAYS .
    Framing is around 3 - 5 weeks delay at present as name plaques and mat boards are made off site.
    We service ALL OF NEW ZEALAND. A next day NZ wide courier from NZ Post is a little over $6.00 (sent safely from your Post Office to our PO Box) so even if you live at the other end of the country there is no reason why you cannot use our service.
     
    We now stock the lapel pin for the New Zealand Defence Service Medal and also for the New Zealand Operational Service Medal. Now you can wear a lapel pin in your jacket denoting your service.
     
    Have your full sized or miniature medals mounted by us, and we will include a free lapel pin (NZOSM or NZDSM) to those mentioning this offer and entitled to either pin.
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    A cautionary tale....
    We were recently contacted by a WW2 and Japan veteran who advised that a firm recommended to him by his local RSA had just mounted his medals and he was concerned with the end result.
    The firm was apparently one dealing in trophies but they advertised they did medal mounting as well. 
    We had him send the medals to us for an opinion. As you can see above, the medals were not even, a long unsuitable pin had been used and poor quality ribbon also used - essentially this veteran had paid close on $100 to have his medals mounted in a manner that looked like he had done them himself.
    We remounted his medals fully for free but the lesson is, medal mounting is a skilled service, you don't get the man who refills your car at the gas station to do your tax returns, so don't get anyone other than a professional medal mounter to mount your medals.
    And the end result when redone by us.
    And here he is on ANZAC Day 2012 wearing his medals as per the NZ Herald website.
    Here's another which arrived recently. The veteran was quite happy with this messy job as below. The medals were uneven, overlapped the wrong way and the NZOSM was even back to front! Glue was bleeding through the ribbon and short lengths of ribbon had been used which resulted in an uneven appearance. When he got his New Zealand Defence Service Medal we remounted the set correctly. Below is the before and after.
    Before..........................
    And then after we had remounted the medals and added in his NZDSM........
    The Post Office will courier your medals to our PO Box for $6-$7 depending on the size of the group. So there is no reason why anyone in the country should not utilise our services. Many of our clients are based in the South Island. It is cheaper to courier us your medals from Bluff than it would be to drive to a local firm! Please use the courier bags at the post office as if you use your own bag the cost can be in excess of $15 for the same sized package.
     
    Also please do not used tracked post or standard post. The safest method of getting your medals to us by post is Courier Post at the Post Office. The bags are secure and are sent from the PO to our secure PO Box.
      
    Our advertising material is in most RSA's throughout New Zealand and we also advertise in the RSA Review and on trade me
    Please note that we are in no way associated with a South Island based former owner of this domain name.