Pretty slick and functional given the materials of the time. I wonder if it could be made to work today. I think adapting it to cards and cash would make it an awkward package, but maybe if you lay them out along the arm it could work.

Wrap the silver in cloth. Can't open without removing from arm so within limits stops petty theft.

agree. its quite an intimately human thing

You might enjoy this then:

  Davenports and kettle drums
  And swallowtail coats
  Tablecloths and patent leather shoes
  Bathing suits and bowling balls
  And clarinets and rings
  And all this radio really needs is a fuse

  A tinker, a tailor, a soldier's things
  His rifle, his boots full of rocks
  And this one is for bravery and this one is for  me 
  And everything's a dollar in this box

  Cuff links and hubcaps
  Trophies and paperbacks
  It's good transportation
  But the brakes aren't so hot
  Neckties and boxing gloves
  This jackknife is rusted
  You can pound that dent out on the hood

  A tinker or tailor, a soldier's things
  His rifle, his boots full of rocks
  Oh, and this one is for bravery, oh, and this one is for me
  And everything's a dollar in this box

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNwC8ETa0pg

Someone loved that child very much: https://greekreporter.com/2024/07/02/ancient-greek-girl-buri...

I often find myself overcome with sonder and dustsceawung (the infinite complexity of others lives, and that the dust all around me is made from the lives and civilisations before us [and alongside us])

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/sonder https://medium.com/etch-to-their-own/dustsceawung-866aff795a...

I most definitely am reminded of how few people leave an archaeological mark when I read these. Though from my perspective, I see him as one of the special ones, even if we know very little. There are so few folks remembered even a generation later -- even the wealthiest industrialists and movie stars quickly fade.

It's a "highly detailed reconstruction" (bottom of TFA). Agreed that TFA is light on details and annoyingly disables text selection, which is something I haven't been annoyed by since 2007.

It would have been bright and shiny when new back then too

>The model seems to make a lot of assumptions based on such a small fragment

this could be said about a shocking amount of historical study