Militaria : 127 results priced between £5.00 and £200.00

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Some small age wear and small bends on binocular body and leather,

Turkmenistan 2000 US Presidents #05 perf sheet of 6 containing Jackson, Buren, Harrison, Tyler, Polk & Taylor, background shows Horses & Militaria

The Admiralty Navigation Manual, volume 2, dated 1941 and published by His Majesty's Stationery Office. Chapters include: position on earths surface, course and bearing, the rhumb line, the great circle, charts, the ship's position, solar time, the sea and air navigation tables etc.. Ex-library book, hardback, includes 274 pages with many illustrations.

A wide selection of Royal Marine and Royal Artillery items suitable for gifts or mementos of time in the service.

A frame consisting of the regimental badge of Yorkshire Regiment and the three former regiments the Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire the Green Howards and the Duke of Wellingtons Regiment. Under the badges are details of the Victoria crosses awarded. Badges and VC mounted on dark green velvet and framed in contrasting mountboard colours.

No medieval emphasis, a compendium of lists and quotations illustrating warfare through the ages: "the indispensible companion for armchair generals everywhere".

This is the third volume by the acclaimed Hungarian collector-and-photographer team, identifying and explaining historic Soviet militaria from private collections. A wide range of uniforms, insignia, awards, weapons, equipment, documents and ephemera from the Soviet Union's 'Great Patriotic War' are illustrated, in more than 230 close-up colour studies, supported by more than 60 fascinating monochrome photographs that have survived, unpublished, in private hands. This volume includes explanations...

The Medal for Bravery was instituted on August 3 1878 and came in four classes. When first instituted was given to NCOs and ORs for outstanding merit on the border (ie principally fighting people like Shamil in the Caucasus and possibly the Turks further west). In 1913, this was renamed the St George medal. The serial number is 309723, proof positive that this is a WW1 issue piece.

This may well have been a larger version of a fund-raising badge similar to the regimental tinnies that the KuK army wore on their hats in WW1. This art work, produced by Ferdinand Optiz (1885-1956) from Prague, is symbolic of the realist school that developed during WW1 and produced some quite strong, dramatic images of the human figure.

These very high quality gilt buttons have the cypher of one of the Georges superimposed on the gilt dome of the button, with 'GRI' for George Rex Imperator. These could be Vice-Regal staff buttons or possibly Indian military, unattached, or Viceroy's bodyguard.

A possible recipient for this medal is Captain James Waterhouse. The 1868 Indian Army List shows JW as Supdt. Photographic Branch in the Surveyor General's Department in Roorkee, 23.7.66. In his time he was highly esteemed for his portraits of indigenous people. He became Major General in 1899 and retired from service in 1904. Arguably, he stands in the front rank of pioneers of Indian photography.

This would have been carried by the mid-Victorian Provost Staff Corps, ancestors of the Royal Military Police of today. The warrant card was the next step for both civil and military police in the UK, introduced c 1890. This piece is marked 'WD/ broad arrow' on the base along with 'Parker Field & Sons // London' - all stamped in.

This regiment, raised in 1914 as the 43rd Infantry Battalion, also known as the Cameron Highlanders, served with great distinction on the Western Front in WW1 and one of the officers was awarded a VC in 1917. This is almost certainly an other ranks button by virtue of its construction and lack of any gilt finish.

This is the sterling silver version issued in 1945 to Canadian troops for service overseas in World War 2. The British version was struck in nickel silver, but for some reason the Canadians were lucky enough to have theirs issued in somewhat finer metal. It carried the normal ribbon for the British example, sadly missing.

This would have been worn over a stout buff leather coat, together with a backplate and 'lobster pot' helmet, by the cavalry of both sides in the English Civil War 1643-53. Only the breastplate and helmet skull were shot proof. This is marked with the helmeted 'A' of the London Armourer's Company and the cross of St. George.(Parliament's army).

This little badge (which could possibly be made of unmarked silver) is possibly Austrian or Belgian. It has stitch holes at either end of the bugle and would have been worn on a soft peak cap.

This fine buckle (the pair is missing) has a French mint acceptance stamp in the shape of a boar's head, which came in in 1838. This does not necessarily relate to the date of the manufacture of the piece, which, in style terms, is closer to the Napoleonic Wars as, by 1838, buckled shoes had gone out of use except perhaps at court.

This is a commercial award for window dressing from the Fascist union of Ferrara, specifically for the best window display ('Mostra Vetrine'), as engraved on the back, along with the date of the Fascist era, 'A-XIII'. The front has a magnificent image of the fortress at Ferrara, which is a lost-wax casting with a certain amount of hand finish.

This badge, instituted in 1919, was awarded to the officers of the cavalry brigade by the newly established Latvian state (the Latvian coat of arms is in the central shield). Latvia was ultimately surrendered by Hitler to Stalin, along with Lithuania, in the general carve-up of 1939, when Poland went the same way.

This would have been worn on one of the early Peruvian shakos in the late 1820s to commemorate the surrender of the Spaniards and the liberation of Peru in 1824 and the founding of the independent state of Peru in the following year. It probably represents the third infantry regiment.

This probably came off an officer's cartridge pouch or a sabretache. It is die-struck in gilding metal (11.5 x 8.5cm) and it has perhaps 30% of its original gilt wash intact. There are three lead solder points on the reverse, now missing their pins, and there is one small break in the badge itself, on the lower curl of one of the Cs. Otherwise it is in excellent order.

This is probably a naval badge, on account of the anchor underneath the Uruguayan coat of arms. However, it is also possibly a generic military badge. If anyone knows what this is, I would be interested to hear.

This hallmarked silver medal was made in Egypt by Bichay of Cairo for the liberation of the Yemen Arab Republic (north Yemen). The Yemen Arab Republic was founded in 1962. About 500 of these medals were struck and it is, thus, quite a rare piece, emblematic of Nasser's involvement in liberation movements in the Arab world.

This device was worn by Austrian court chamberlains as a symbol stitched into a pocket of the dress coat. It represents the key which every chamberlain would have carried as a symbol of office. It appears to be fire gilt on base metal of some sort and is in reasonable condition with most of its original gilding intact.

These brooches were originally made in Scotland in the 17th century and the style continued almost unchanged to the end of the 19th century, so they are hard to date accurately. However, the style of the hinge and the provision of a loop for a safety chain all point to a later date, unless this is an early brooch that has been remounted later.

The day the blunderbuss arrives I could not stop looking and feeling the gun for at least one hour. My wife told me that I was sick........ I am very happy, it is a piece of craftsmanship! Well made! I have 5 blunderbusses but all iron barrel, also from England but this one is gorgeous with the Brass Barrel.

This particularly fine pair was made by Busch of Rathenow (East Prussia). The case is made by Hensoldt of Wetzlar and is marked with the Weimar Army acceptance eagle. The lenses are almost as they left the factory and the resulting vision extremely sharp. There is a 1944 date on the steel snap of the case, together with a code 'crn'.

Commissioned German Railway personnel wore this on a conflower blue, red-piped cap with a black velvet band. A gilt Reichsadler and winged wheel cockade completed the outfit. The ORs version had a simple black leather strap like the Army.

This silver award, struck by the Ministry of the Interior for Land Gallantry (eg coal mines, etc), comes with an original, but fragmentary, silk ribbon. The medal is 30mm in diameter. The inscription on the back is: 'MINISTERE DE L'INTERIEUR' around 'ACTES DE DEVOUMENT' in the centre.

This nice medal, with a view of Edinburgh city surmounted by the castle on the reverse with the motto 'The Westerns / 23rd November 1803' on the obverse, was awarded as a commemorative item to an infantry volunteer unit raised at the termination of the peace of Amiens (1802) between France and GB in 1803.

The lid has the maker's name 'Franz Relschauer // Oberstein // Nahe' printed on the rayon lining. The condition of the cross is exellent - no enamel damage and pristine gilt finish. The ribbon is clean if somewhat creased with age. The base of the box interior has some foxing and the corners are a little worn and scuffed with age/use.

These are typical of the first half of the 19th century, when epaulettes still had a practical function of defending the shoulder from a sabre blow. One button remains, marked 'Blandford Troop YC', one of the OY troops of this period, the Marquess of Blandford being the eldest son of the Earl of Oxford.

This eagle was introduced in the mid-1930s when the new navy uniforms came into force. These were principally worn on the reefer jacket and the white summer tunic. All navy personnel would have worn them, officers wearing them in a gold bullion finish, while ORs wore them in a cotton/wool mix (as this one) and later in BeVo (rayon).

A good clean copy of the Auction Sale Catalogue produced for Dix, Noonan, Webb's sale of "Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria including A Collection of Medals to Great War Officer Casualties & The Jack Deacon Collection", held at Great Queen Street, London, on Thursday, June 27th, 2002. Soft covers, un-numbered pages, 1609 lots, minor annotations. Very well researched and produced catalogue packed with information plus black and white illustrations and VIII fine full colour plates. Includes...