Specialist Departments

About Our Specialist Departments

Trenchards Auctioneers & Valuers has a dedicated team of specialists who cover a wide range of militaria fields. With many years of expertise between them the team are able to appraise your artefacts accurately with our goal to achieve for you the very best possible price on auction day. 

Military Medals

We can appraise all military issue medals whether single items or groups from any period . Medals of the First World War are always especially sought after as well as those from WW2 RAF Aircrews or from personnel who served in Europe , Burma or The Atlantic. Victorian medals & those rarer issues such as from the Battle of Waterloo attract alot of interest also & can achieve high prices at auction. 

Military Helmets & Headdress 

Always highly collectable from all nationalities & eras the soldiers helmet can be anything from a Cromwellian 'Lobster pot' helmet to an Argentinian helmet from the 1982 South Atlantic campaign. Many helmets & items of military protective headgear still exist today the most sought after examples being from the trenches of WW1 & the battlefields of WW2. 

Military Uniforms 

The collecting of military uniforms still remains popular from the Victorian era up until WW2 & sometimes beyond. A wide variety of the striking scarlet uniforms of pre WW1 era can still be found with combat tunics , trousers & camouflage garments of WW1 & WW2 being the most sought after. 

Military Aviation 

Flying clothing , helmets , life preservers , flying equipment , escape aids etc are all very popular with collectors those from the early days of the WW1 Royal Flying Corps & WW2 RAF Fighter & Bomber Command being especially sought after. With any items relating to the Battle of Britain remaining ever popular those from RAF personnel right through until the end of WW2 are also extremely desirable by collectors today. 

Swords & Edged Weapons 

The collecting of military swords & edged weapons has been popular for many years there never being a shortage in the variety of those encountered. From the ceremonial swords of Napoleons armies to the battledress pocket carried Fairbairn-Sykes fighting knives carried by the British paratroopers of Normandy & Arnhem these iconic items create avid interest amongst edged weapons collectors today. A massive range of heavy swords for cavalry & light swords for infantry were once issued to all armies these swashbuckling pieces ever present on the battlefields of Waterloo & even the early days of WW1. 

Police Memorabilia 

From the early days of 'The Peelers', a name derived from the originator of the Metropolitan Police Sir Robert Peel , through the Victorian era & beyond the numerous helmet plates , decorated truncheons , helmets & other related items of Police memorabilia have been much collected by enthusiasts around the globe.