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.

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British tanker 'splatter mask' for deflecting shrapnel, WW1, 1917 (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 days ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/historyartifacts@lemmy.world

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[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago

Man... What a fascinating object.

Thanks for posting, that's a really interesting gimpse through time and space

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/30013368

[–] QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago

Actually pretty cool. Looks very Mad Max

[–] Clevererhans@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Did it actually work?

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yep! Reasonably well, at least. Later tanks would have improved armor that made shrapnel and spalling less common, so after WW1 you generally see tankers only in goggles rather than full face masks.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 3 points 2 days ago

If we still had the problems, we could use stuff from riot armour.

[–] clover 4 points 2 days ago

Seems like a great reason to shave your beard.

[–] CluckN@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I could use this when cooking bacon