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Belt Buckle Collecting

Title image: A portion of the Author’s collection of vintage belt buckles.

By Brock Lane, www.beltbucklehistory.com The very first vintage belt buckles that I bought were on Craigslist. I didn’t know anything about them, but they looked interesting, and I was hopeful about doing some research to learn the story behind them.…

The American Cowboy rides again

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Long before Kevin Costner’s John Dutton, Rip, and the ranch hands on the Yellowstone Ranch, there was the Marlboro Man, the quintessential archetype, even today, of the American cowboy and our westward expansion as a country. The Marlboro Man was…

“Militaria Findings”: Conflict and combat are as old as the story of man. The result is centuries of military artifacts dating back to antiquity that tell the history and bear the scars of the hard-fought battles of their time.

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Conflict and combat are as old as the story of man. To engage, man needed weapons to attack, and armor in various forms to protect himself. The result is centuries of military artifacts dating back to antiquity that tell the…