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Genuine coatee from 1970s epic 'Waterloo' - coatee of different era but adjusted to be representative of the time and includes genuine Georgian buttons. Waterloo (1970) Just because its a film prop doesn't mean its not faithful to an original nor that it doesn't contain many genuine attributes. They're also great fun to look at. There are pieces that have been constructed from genuine articles just not necessarily from the exact time period. These are mixed together with re

In memory of Nonno who loved to tell us about these guys. A wonderful man who used to laugh heartily about his comical National Service in Trieste but reserved high adulation for the Bersaglieri. The Bersaglieri - standing for sharpshooters in Italian - are one of Italy’s most distinctive and celebrated military units. They are best known for their unique traditions, wide-brimmed feathered headdress (using feathers of the Western Capercaillie - a type of Grouse) and 'runni

At Mostly Militaria, we take great pride and interest in many different historical cultures, battles and periods of history. To be specific, our favourite history lies between the Napoleonic Wars, with the legendary clashes between the Coalitions, the mighty French Empire, and the Kingdoms of Prussia and Denmark-Norway. Over the past few years, we have been collecting hundreds of items from this era, many of which we are currently unable to show all on this one blog page. Whe

IYKYK..... All those with an interest in collecting Militaria will be familiar with the need to negotiate the perils of acquiring and storing their cherished pieces whilst concurrently maintaining marital harmony. They'll be all too familiar with some refrains like: "When will I get my bloody room back?!" or "I can't stand the smell of mothballs and gun oil!" (weird, how could anyone not!) or "Get rid of it!" or even "I can't get into the garage any more!". This has led to g

Welcome to our first blog, the first we hope of many over the weeks, months and years to come. We’ll try and keep these as regular as possible; they’ll be completely free form and we’ll simply follow our nose and write about what interests us and, hopefully you from time to time. They may cover topics as diverse as historical events, the practicalities of running a website to support our hobby, our motivations or perhaps a write up of a Militaria fair or car boot sale we’v