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
The mounting of this piece is interesting to me. It is kinda hard to tell, but it looks as if there is a needless long point at the tip of the blade, which has been inserted into some kind of acrylic piece to hold it upright. I wonder if that was added for display purposes (which in a way seems like irreparably harming the artifact), or if the original intended shape is just odd.
The picture is too low res to tell for sure, but I believe what you are actually seeing is a rod that comes out of the base, runs behind the sword, and has a cradle at the top to hold the sword just under the guard (the two shiny bits of metal).
Display purposes, probably. I hope they know how to do such things without harming the artifacts, but unfortunately, not all pieces of antiquity are given the care and expertise they deserve, so I couldn't guarantee anything about this piece, which I believe is part of a private collection.
