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Historical Artifacts

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Just a community for everyone to share artifacts, reconstructions, or replicas for the historically-inclined to admire!

Generally, an artifact should be 100+ years old, but this is a flexible requirement if you find something rare and suitably linked to an era of history, not a strict rule. Anything over 100 is fair game regardless of rarity.

Generally speaking, ruins should go to !historyruins@lemmy.world

Illustrations of the past should go to !historyillustrations@lemmy.world

Photos of the past should go to !HistoryPorn@lemmy.world

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[–] Hardeehar@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

I know it's the leg armor laying against the waist armor but my first thought was: awwuh what a cute little samurai dude!

[–] Smokeydope@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

A shortgun, a smallurai, a pocket Bushido

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago
[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Real gold? Wouldn't that be incredibly heavy, and also useless in combat?

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Gilded, so it's a very thin layer of gold. That being said, probably more a show piece than something one wishes to risk in combat. At the least, probably not something worn by anyone fighting on the front lines instead of commanding behind a safe wall of human shields.