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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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Age/corrosion have made the reflective side (right) no longer, er, reflective, but it's neat nonetheless.
And they're just gonna pawn it off like that without even polishing it??
You don't polish antiquities. That is just destroying them slowly. Removing corrosion exposes fresh material for new corrosion.
Accept that a poor condition is part of the charm of historical artifacts.