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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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[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I assumed the best holds are on the matching mold for the other side. It's not the metal that's being wasted. As you point out it can be remelted. But heat isn't free. That's wood or coal that's going up in smoke.