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To: Tax-chick

I think the jacket with the remains of it’s owner inside it were in the Swedish battleship Kronan which blew up in battle in 1676.

Amazing how many billions of garments have been made over the millenia and how few have survived.


43 posted on 04/24/2016 4:22:17 PM PDT by Rockpile (GOP legislators-----caviar eating surrender monkeys.)
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To: Rockpile
Oh. I think that's a later date than the Vasa

Textiles don't last, unfortunately, except under very unusual conditions.

45 posted on 04/24/2016 5:18:08 PM PDT by Tax-chick (The kitten's name is Bonkers.)
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