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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Illustrations of the past should go to [email protected]

Photos of the past should go to [email protected]

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The USS Constitution is the world's oldest commissioned naval warship still afloat. (www.navy.mil)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The keel is fucked though. The Navy apparently has their answer to the problem of the ship of Thesius.

https://ussconstitutionmuseum.org/2018/04/13/rebuilt-preserved-restored-uss-constitution-across-the-centuries/

The keel is so soft by now they'll never take her out of the Bay. Which is fine. It's a great museum. I was there when they were re-cladding her and you could engrave your name on copper plates that they told me were going on the ship.

It's amazing the ship is still around and that they're staffing it with a full crew, craftsmen for re-fit and maintenance and also training sailors on it. One place I'm happy my tax dollars are going.