Collecting historical relics is one of the most popular types of collecting
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Historical relics are traces of our ancestors’ life. They can be jewelry and crosses, various kinds of living items: locks, keys, instruments, knives, fishhooks, buttons, etc. They also can be items connected with ancient wars and battles: pikes, sabres, swords, daggers. From recent wars one can find such historical relics as helmets, firearms and its parts, flasks, footwear and identification symbols, medals, tanks, airplanes, etc.
Collecting of historical relics is one of the most popular types of collecting. This hobby appeared centuries ago, when first conquerors got their enemies’ swords, helmets and armor as trophies and demonstration of victory and success; and traditionally the collection is passed on from generation to generation. It is also very profitable, as the value of rare historical relics rises over the years.
In war relics collecting, World War II items collecting is the most popular:
Firstly, because it was the most large-scale war in the 20th century. Despite it ended almost 70 years ago, even nowadays one can find witnesses of this war. Very many families have one or more relatives who acted in the WWII. They returned home with medals, weapons, headwear, and other war equipment. Their children were raised in after-war times, when the best toys were toy soldiers, pistols, tanks, airplanes, and TV showed films about war.
Secondly, this war was ‘rich’ on malefactors, the cruelest men in the history, who awarded themselves with a lot of different medals and who were fond of extravagant uniforms. This has led to a great variety of items for collecting.
Thirdly, other large-scale wars were a long time ago and little number of relics has been left. For example, prior, after a war soldiers continued to wear soldier’s uniform as working clothes. Therefore, many textile items did not survived till nowadays, so the collectors basically can find only a little amount of metal items like buckles, buttons, and sometimes weapons.
World War II, in its turn, ‘produced’ millions of uniforms, headwear, helmets, medals, weapons, etc. and many of these items are still gathering dust in garrets and cellars all over the world. There is a lot of war photo and video records that stirs up collectors’ interest to this event. Nowadays thanks to Internet, collectors from all the countries can connect, buy, and exchange WWII items.
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