www.ww2buyer.com and www.medalbuyers.com are the acquisitions websites for www.themilitariamarket.com

“The nation’s largest permanent bricks and mortar militaria center”.

At WW2Buyer.com. You Sell the very best of mixed world militaria from 1750 to present day.                            WW2Buyer.com Now cover all the conflicts from the Battle of Waterloo to the Crimean War to the Boer War, WW1, WW2, Korea and Vietnam.  We are enthusiatic buyers of  historical artifacts such as headdress, uniforms, medals and awards, documents and images of importance, weapons and equipment. Militaria Valuations Free We cover all areas of collecting in World War Two, German items, such as Luftwaffe, Kriegsmarine, and Heer, SS items and Fallshirmjager, covering all fields of Nazi memorabilia. British and US items we specialise in included RAF, SOE, Commando, US Airborne plus all mainstream militaria from the Allied Forces. Militaria Valuations Free With the upcoming anniversary of World War One we offer a large stock of collectables from The Great War, everything from Trench Warfare to Imperial Picklehaulbes. Militaria Valuations Free As well as covering earlier warfare such as English Civil War, US Civil War, we also have a selection of Japanese weapons and now branching forward in to modern warfare with our new post 45 department, covering the Falklands conflict, and also Operation Desert Storm.

Industry Guide Lines For Selling Medals

Before you invite a “Medal ” dealer into your home we recommend the following.

1) Check their credentials .Are they professionals, does their website display a VAT number (U.K.) or a Max Certified Dealer Badge (USA)?.Professional looking websites are now inexpensive to build, they can be operated from an iPhone from inside a prison (Fact), a Summer camp ,Bar, or by school Kids operating from Mum and Dads residential address!.

 2) Always get an guide estimate of the likely range of prices they are prepared to pay you. This can be achieved by supplying phonographs first or offering a good description. Do not risk putting your self  in the uncomfortable position of being pressured.

3) You should be offered and accept no less than 75% of the market value for your collection or single items.

4) Cash is hard to come by don’t get tricked by a bully who pushes for an appointment to visit you immediately. Before you have prepared exactly what will be going and what your bottom price is.

5) Show absolutely no sympathy to advertisers who claim to be passionate collectors.This is usually criminal deception, advertising is expensive  such advertisers are buying to sell on !.

 5) Consider contacting a dealer with a main  street store a V.A.T. number (U.K.) or one who is a member of a (trade association USA) and who has an established reputation to uphold. Such enterprises have customers waiting and will be able pay the prices you have researched and offer genuine advice.

The Air Crew Europe Star was a awarded for service inthe second world war to

aircrew on operational flights over Europe from British bases.

Two months operational flying was required between 3 September 1939 and

5 June 1944 in order to qualify. The39-45must have been earned before commencing

qualifying service for the Air Crew Europe Star.

From 6 June 1944  operational flying over Europe qualified aircrew for the France

and Germany Star

British uniform regulations stipulated that neither the Atlantic star nor the France and Germany

star would be awarded to a recipient of the Air Crew Europe Star. Subsequent entitlement to the

Atlantic Star or the France and Germany Star was denoted by the award of the appropriate clasp

to the Air Crew Europe Star.

The General Service Medal 1918 – 1962

       The General Service Medal was instituted 19th January 1923.

These were issued for significant Army and Air force operations other than those in East, Central and West Africa,India or on the North West Frontier.

The Marines and Royal were issued The Naval General Service Medal 1915 – 1962 with similar yet not identical bars.
The form of the medal is a 36mm disc or coin in silver originally suspended on an ornate fixed suspender the medal and suspender have undergone some design changes over the periods not least of all the heads the reigning Monarchs  . it was never issued without a bar.  A standing, helmeted figure of Victory holding a trident in her left hand and placing a laurel wreath over the symbols of the Army and the Air Force with her right.
Seventeen bars were issued. The most recent to be authorized being “Canal Zone” which was instituted in 2003 for recognition for service in the “Suez canal zone” , 16th Oct ’51 –

19th Oct ’54 Impressed in sans-serif capitals for the Army, or machine engraved for the Royal Air Force.
Purple ribbon with a wide green central stripe.

 

The General Service Medal 1918 – 1962