African chain mail shirt

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Now here is a European wedge riveted hauberk, probably around the 16th century, the red arrows show the front of the link, you can see that after many years of use the rivet head has been burnished smooth and is now just a bump, while the yellow arrows point to the wide end of the wedge shaped rivets on the inside of the link, they have been burnished smooth with no trace visible of the rivet showing.