Militaria

Militaria are artifacts or replicas of military, police, etc., collected for their historical significance. Such antiques include firearms, swords, knives, and other equipment such as; uniforms, helmets, other military headgear, and armour; military orders and decorations; challenge coins and awards; badges, buttons and insignia; military art, sculpture, and prints; ephemera such as cigarette cards, photographs, antiquarian books, magazines and posters; scale models and toy soldiers; and items of combat equipment and field gear.

Today, the collecting of militaria is an established hobby among many groups of people. Many European families, specifically those royal families with long martial tradition, have large collections of militaria passed down from generation to generation. Also, many people today collect militaria for investment purposes.

An alternate name, used by many dealers, for militaria is 'military antiquities' or 'military antiques'.

"Militaria literature"

The historian Henning Pieper coined the term to describe the "huge array of non-scholarly works which can be summarised as belonging to genre of 'militaria literature'" that provide a highly-selective view of the German war effort during World War II. He includes books by Christopher Ailsby, Herbert Walther, and Tim Ripley in this group.[1]

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References

  1. Pieper 2015, p. 8,191.
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