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.
Yes, they are basically weaponized lawn darts
Lawn darts are just demilitarized plumbata.
Oh, I thought this was a shitpost.
They're literally a thing.
Whoever thought this would be a fun lawn toy was nefarious.
You walk into a toy company's division for new toy development in the 20th century, and it's just a bunch of guys looking at ancient weapons
https://www.scoutshop.org/cub-scout-pocket-knife-2-blade-615780.html
Cob Scout knives are still a thing. Back when lawn darts came out getting a young boy his first knife was a common rite of passage. Mumblety-peg was a common game of throwing the knife into the dirt.
2 inches is all you need. I remember those would close so easily on my fingers.
that's the day I became a fixed blade man.
Because you didn't have enough fingers left to open and close the other ones?
Stolen from Red Foxx.
The police think [all ghetto residents] carry knives. [Expletive deleted] my uncle carried an ice pick for years.
LOL, my dad carried a crescent wrench. He buried my Bowie knife in a tree so hard I could swing on it. You wouldn't want to be at the end of that man's flying wrench.
I had to read that three times. Your father used a crescent wrench for business and social occasions. He had the arm strength to stab a tree and embed the knife. He was a formidable opponent.
The reviews really sell it
Couldn't close it because they lack thumbs?