Echoes of glory boom across the salerooms
History is the new ‘cookery’ on TV, and the adventures of Rifleman Sharpe have brought the Peninsular War to more general notice, but that is hardly enough to explain why military medals, for all their echoes of glory, have become a real boom area in the antiques and collectables market.
The phenomenon was seen at Gilding's sale, although the low estimates on a 44-lot hoard found in a h…