Sell to Us · Military & Wartime
Sell military memorabilia to buyers who understand what it meant.
A veteran’s footlocker is not clutter. The uniforms, medals, patches, photographs, and souvenirs a service member kept are the record of a chapter most families only partly know. When the time comes to part with these things, they deserve buyers who know what they are looking at and treat the history with respect.
We buy military items from every era, the World Wars especially, across Orange County and Southern California. We will sit with you, go through the footlocker properly, explain what things are, and pay fairly for what we can give a second life with collectors who preserve this history.
Wartime items we buy
Uniforms & flight jackets
WWII A-2 and G-1 leather jackets, dress uniforms, HBT fatigues, and boots.
Insignia & medals
Patches, wings, sweetheart jewelry, decorations, and named groupings.
Field gear
Helmets, web gear, footlockers, trench art, and personal kit.
Paper & photos
Photo albums, letters, documents, maps, and unit histories.
Bring-backs
Souvenirs brought home from both theaters, evaluated knowledgeably and legally.
A county full of service stories
Orange County’s generation of veterans, many who served out of El Toro and Tustin’s air stations or settled here after the war, left footlockers, garages, and dens full of carefully kept history. We have handled groupings from pilots, sailors, Marines, and the families of those who never spoke much about it. Whether it is one flight jacket or an entire den, call us before anything is donated or separated; groupings are worth more, and mean more, kept together.
Why It Matters
The difference between ordinary and valuable is in the details: a stitch, a hallmark, a date code. Knowing them is our entire job.
How it works
Call us.
A real conversation about what you have, no forms, no waiting.
We come to you.
We look at everything, at your pace. We know what we're seeing.
Cash offer, same visit.
A fair price on the spot, or a full estate sale run for you.
Common questions
Should I split the medals from the rest?
Please don’t. A named grouping, medals, photos, papers, and uniform together, is worth more historically and financially than the pieces sold separately. Bring us the whole footlocker as it is.
Do you buy weapons?
We do not buy firearms. Edged weapons, deactivated items, and militaria are evaluated case by case, lawfully. We are glad to point you to licensed specialists for anything outside what we handle.
What is my relative’s WWII jacket worth?
Painted A-2 flight jackets, named examples, and rare units can reach into the thousands; honest wear rarely hurts and often helps. Condition questions are exactly why we look in person before any number is discussed.
One call. We’ll take it
from there.
(949) 449-1255Mon-Sat 6 am-8 pm · Sun 8 am-5 pm
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