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Are you new to collecting military relics? This is a good place to look for interviews with top collectors and dealers, learn about preservation and display techniques, read book reviews, see auction and show reports, and read about the history of the relics we all love.

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Militaria Collecting 101 United States Marine Corps to Commemorate its 250th Birthday in Chicago Military Trader

The Tank Museum features this memorial depicting a typical tank crew from WWII.

Militaria Collecting 101 Visiting the historic Dorset Trail: Part II John Norris

These realistic-looking busts from John LeRoi Mannequins are supplied to museums and collectors, who use them to display some of their acquisitions as a range of headdress.

Militaria Collecting 101 Boots on the ground at the Malvern Military Show John Norris

“Dog tags” have been used by a number of countries for the last 100-plus years. Pictured are both a set of U.S. Army soldier’s tags and a French tag from World War I, along with a U.S. Army woman’s set from WWII.

Militaria Collecting 101 ‘Erkennungsmarken’: Dog tags reveal another side of WWII German military Chris William

Helmet books are grouped by country rather than era. That seems less chaotic!

Militaria Collecting 101 The glorious chaos of collecting Militaria Peter Suciu

Militaria Collecting 101 The Congressional Medal of Honor Society and the Coolidge National Medal of Honor Heritage Center announce honorees for the 2025 Patriot Awards Gala in Chattanooga Military Trader

The memorial to American troops in WWII who left Weymouth for Omaha Beach in June 1944.

Militaria Collecting 101 Tracking history on the Dorset Trail John Norris

Wehrmannschaft members were trained in marksmanship using small-bore rifles. Older experienced SA ex-soldiers and huntsmen were often called upon to give rudimentary instruction to the young recruits, and the older men who reached into their sixties.

Militaria Collecting 101 SA-Wehrmannschaft: Training the last warriors of Nazi Germany Chris William

Exceptional Fabrique Nationale (Herstal) U.S. M240B machine gun, .308, one of very few specimens of its type fully transferable to an individual owner. Unfired since leaving factory. Near-mint, boxed. Sold at the midpoint of its estimate range, for $467,400

Militaria Collecting 101 Morphy’s delivered on its May 13-15 auction with $6.74M in sales Military Trader

Militaria Collecting 101 Noonans offering up Heroic ‘Animal V.C.’ awarded to Judy, the boxer dog Military Trader

Militaria Collecting 101 The National Memorial Day Concert, America’s National Night of Remembrance, from Washington, D.C. Sunday, May 25 Military Trader

Militaria Collecting 101 Oscar Mike Foundation launches “Carry the Weight’ campaign to raise funds to build adaptive sports campus for inured veterans Military Trader

At the Ohio Valley Military Society's 2025 SOS there was something for everybody.

Militaria Collecting 101 The Show Goes On: 2025 OVMS SOS recap Peter Suciu

During a patriotic evening at the NRA Foundation Banquet in Atlanta, Georgia, Andy Wickstrom, President of Henry Repeating Arms, presented a Spirit of the Corps 250th Anniversary Tribute Edition rifle to Medal of Honor recipient and Georgia native Maj. Gen. James Livingston, USMC (Ret.). The presentation celebrated both General Livingston's extraordinary career of service and this year's milestone anniversary of the United States Marine Corps.

Militaria Collecting 101 Medal of Honor Marine receives Henry Repeating Arms tribute Military Trader

Exceptional cased set of Colts, comprising an 1860 fluted Army Revolver and 1862 Police Revolver. Factory presentation to Col. Henry Craig, US Army Chief of Ordnance. Accompanied by copy of 2019 factory letter confirming shipment on Feb. 25, 1861. Provenance: Craig family. Excellent for its age.

Militaria Collecting 101 Morphy’s May 13-15 Firearms & Militaria Auction well stocked with coveted, transferable NFA guns plus 19th century, Civil War-era and WWII rarities Military Trader

Militaria Collecting 101 Books in Brief Spring 2025 Edition: A trio of worthwhile military reads David Walsh