Bosleys

Among recent paratrooper items that impressed at auction, this Polish badge with combat wreath doubled the top estimate at Bosleys to take £4000 from a UK online private buyer.

Airborne forces memorabilia is usually a winner at auction but especially when it’s an early example

With 39,000 of these campaign honours given out, which ones can generate extra demand and achieve higher prices?

Bosleys has launched a new format for its auctions, including a move from Marlow to Staffordshire.

The collecting of English military swords is a science in itself.

An “extremely rare” grouping of military items including a British 1899 issue leather hobnail boot with a shrapnel hole sold for £6500 at a Buckinghamshire auction on July 3.

Military badges offered at Bosleys provided a good snapshot of a niche collecting area.

Even in the hugely popular world of SAS medal collecting, where extraordinary deeds and great stories are taken as read, every now and again a consignment will come along with that ‘wow’ factor.