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Is this a 16th-century smartphone? (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I suspect it's brass or just gold plated. Gold on it's own would not be particularly durable. Unless this was meant to be like those spinny clocks grandpa had on his window sill- purely decorative.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago

I suspect it's a steampunk necronomicon.