For much of that time, one of his retirement gifts, a beautiful plaque that held his sword and scabbard with a heavy bronze insignia completely fell into disrepair and oxidized, his scabbard disappeared (used by by youngest brother in a high school play and never returned) and the sword sat on top of a cabinet tarnishing and gathering dust.
I rebuilt the plaque by removing all the decrepit structure, cleaned, polished, stained, laquered it, and and coated and re-attached the brass plaque.
I completely polished the brass emblem as best I could, and coated it so it won't tarnish again, and glued it to the front.
I 3-D printed the face plate for the emblem which also has the structure to support the crossed sword, and affixed it to the Then I 3-D printed in sections the scabbard for the sword (after I saw the price of buying one!) in seven sections, glued it together, and painted it.
Lastly, I cleaned the sword meticulously, as the handle is composed of miniature real pearls, purchased a new tassel for the sword, and put the whole thing together. Here is the scabbard I printed in sections to glue together: 
Here is the scabbard finished and painted: 
Here is the whole plaque finished and painted: 
Darn. I should have taken a before and after picture!