Arms, Armour & Militaria
Arms and armour stretches from ancient times to modern conflicts, with weapons ranging from swords and clubs to firearms, armour including helmets and shields, and militaria such as medals, uniforms, flags and ephemera.
Medals and militaria are often sold at auction as specialised categories, with arms and armour sales also held.
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Wartime prints marching to the fore
28 March 2014Images and footage of the First World War seem to be featuring prominently on TV at the moment, no doubt part of the extra attention engendered by the marking of the centenary of the outbreak of the conflict in 1914.
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Bell rings in a year of WW1 centenary sales
20 March 2014Theophilus Jones, a private in the Durham Light Infantry, achieved the unfortunate distinction of being the first soldier to be killed on British soil during the First World War.
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Poppy from 1916 is poignant survivor
19 December 2013Picked from a trench in 1916, a poppy which is thought to be the only surviving example from the First World War sold for £5200 at Duke’s of Dorchester earlier this month.
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Helping create the legend of the man who never was
09 December 2013When Major William Martin of the Royal Marines left the submarine HMS Seraph in April 1943 on a top-secret mission he played the main role in one of the most successful and ingenious wartime deceptions ever attempted.
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War sculpture takes £46,000 at Duke’s
10 October 2013This small sculpture conveying the raw horror of the First World War attracted serious competition at Duke’s of Dorchester.
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The ‘finest fighting’ medal takes £115,000 at Spink
05 August 2013A medal given to a remarkable sailor who was given the honour of conveying Napoleon to exile in Elba in 1813 as a reward for his daring exploits in the Royal Navy has made a record price.
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Why the reward for progress at maths in 1818 was £11,000
18 July 2013We can be too quick to write the obituary of the passionate old-school collector. Thankfully, they are still with us.
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American flag from the War of 1812
18 April 2013This 15-star American War Naval Jack used in the Anglo-American War of 1812, is thought to be the first of its kind to be offered at auction.
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Pope’s gun sells at Italian auction
02 April 2013This exceptional Spanish flintlock sporting gun is dated 1739, but both the gun and case bear the arms of Pope Pius VII, whose papacy was dominated by the Vatican’s troubled relationship with France during the Napoleonic period nearly a century later.
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Louis XV carbine with a right royal pedigree
04 March 2013At the end of the Second World War, this 18th century flintlock repeating carbine was thrown onto a huge heap of weapons confiscated from German citizens.
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Olympic and War medals in Bedford
25 January 2013Medals and other material relating to George William Hutson, a British athlete who served in the First World War, will be offered for sale at Peacocks on February 1 in Bedford.
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The sword of Catherine the Great’s bodyguard
30 November 2012A gold sword that belonged to the bodyguard of Empress Catherine II of Russia is estimated at £40,000-60,000 in Thomas Del Mar’s December 5 Antique Arms, Armour and Militaria sale in West Kensington, London.
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First V.C. awarded to a Sikh regiment
16 November 2012Spink are to offer the Indian Mutiny Victoria Cross awarded to Sergeant Major (later Lieutenant) Peter Gill of the Loodiana Regiment for saving the life of an officer and his family at Benares and seeing off 27 mutinous Sepoys with only his sergeant’s sword, on June 4, 1857.
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Spitfire pilot’s medal group
16 November 2012This DFC medal group of a British Spitfire pilot who survived the war despite crashing and being given up for dead by his colleagues has an estimate of £8000-10,000 in Plymouth Auction Rooms’ November 21 sale.
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Wartime relic with special connection to Nantwich
08 November 2012Nantwich, Cheshire auctioneers Peter Wilson are selling this item, believed to be from the engine of a fighter plan which was steered away from houses in the town into the River Weaver by a heroic American pilot.
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Guns with a right royal heritage
11 October 2012Fine and unusual English guns made for Indian princes formed the most lucrative sub-section of Holt’s latest London sale.
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Russian order provides £40,000 result
05 October 2012This Russian military medal demolished an estimate of £10,000-15,000 at a recent sale held at Bonhams Knightsbridge.
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Hero’s medals still missing after theft
28 August 2012Medals awarded to one of Britain’s greatest military heroes are still missing after being stolen from the Redoubt Fortress and Military Museum in Eastbourne.
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American rarity at Silverwoods
22 August 2012One of the noted rarities among 19th century American firearms will be on offer in Lancashire on August 30 when Silverwoods of Clitheroe sell this John Walch Navy Model 12-shot percussion revolver.
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Big game rifles – a short history
18 August 2012An interesting sporting gun found its way into Wallis & Wallis’s (17.5% buyer's premium) predominantly militaria sale in Lewes on June 12.
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