How do you display them? Looking for some ideas, I just have them on a hat.

I know that you can purchase nice oak wooden displays shaped like the state of Illinois that are designed to hold the pins. They are very cool looking...

i just put them on my visor thing in my truck

The bigger craft stores (e.g.: Hobby Lobby, etc.) have shadow boxes. All you have to do is buy one and attach the pins to an attractive piece of felt. This makes a really nice display. By the way, these Illinois harvest pins are becoming very collectible, so, you may have valuable collection as well.

I used to keep mine in a "zip lock" type bag on the top shelf in my gun safe and never displayed them. One year for Christmas one of my anti hunting sister in laws thought it was funny I didn't harvest a deer and bought me a stuffed deer about 14 inches tall. Actually it was a moose but she didn't know the difference. I took all my pins and started to attach them to the body and out on each antler and now have it setting on top of my gun safe in our bedroom closet out of sight. Except when said sister in law visits. Then it "comes out of the closet" and sits on the fire place mantle till she leaves. Always a comment from me how many pins are on the stuffed "deer". I'm starting to run out of space so I been thinking of asking her for a new one this Christmas.

I ahve a business card from a vendor that was at the Illinois Deer & Turkey Classic. He has the picture frames to display them in - they are real nice. I will find the card and PM you the info.

I had them all over the place and started to get them all in one place. Man - I've got ALOT. Of course my first one is the most meaningful to me. If they are "becoming verycollectable",that's good I guess. But I ain't sellin any of mine.

Check out some of these........



54 pins

http://newdeergear.com/index.html



http://www.dkframing.com/index.html

23 pins - I like the framed one butonly holds 23 pins?

Those are real nice Matt, thanks for the links,I'll probably order one. I like gruntr's shadowbox idea too.

Nice mounting boards. Dosen't look like there is a space to fit the larger size though. I think it was in 1983 the harvest pin was bigger than the rest. I'll check tonight when I get home.

Heres the difference in pin size from 1982 and 1983. I think the 1983 pin was the only one that I'm aware of that was bigger. They went back to the normal size in 1984.