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

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