The Boer war which was fought between the British and the Boer people in a struggle for power in South Africa has become the interest of a lot of people as this is a marked turn of the century event. The first of these two wars took place between 1880 and 1881 and the second between 1899 and 1902. Boer war memorabilia have become a collector’s item and includes silver, china, prisoners’ artefacts, books, postcards, medals and some others. Many of these items are rare and difficult to come by and therefore extremely valuable.

Boer war memoribilia in the form of medals are popular souvenirs and the list of medals from this time will keep any historian interested for an endless period of time. Medals include honour medals, decorations, campaign medals, unofficial medals and Boer medals. Those medals were awarded for reasons such as devoted service during the war, to all ranks that fought and to reward soldiers to name just a few. Badges containing unit letters and cut from sheet brass are also extremely popular collector’s items.

China in with Caton Woodville’s design and Staffordshire figures are some of the popular souvenir collected mainly by British citizens. A tin of chocolates given to the sailors and soldiers that serve in South Africa by the queen are amongst some of the valuable and rare collector’s items. South Africans however are much more interested in collecting memorabilia originating in South Africa such as medals, badges and carved artefacts made from wood, bone, animal horn or stone.

Boer war memorabilia is available at The-amc, specializing in military memorabilia, medals, badges, insignia, uniforms , books and all aspects of collectable militaries which are pertinent to Africa; this is any history fanatic and collectors paradise.If you want to buy some uniforms and uniforms at work ,click on the links in this article.