Well, I think overall I am the one looking a little bit deeper than some others. That has to do with the fact that I can read and understand German and in my humble opinion this is a conditio sine qua non for serious research of certain aspects of the hobby. We just saw that above .....
I am also far more sceptical than others when it comes to "stories" .... the more so since quite a substantial amount of those has been proven to be - using your expression - BS.
That is why I like Tom's forensic approach very much since it is a perfect aspect of what we try to do here: to give the collector the very best knowledge based on reproduceable facts, not on something that "might have been" or based on nice word twisting games.
Originality is not a result of semantic skills, it is something inherent to the piece itself.
I am also far more sceptical than others when it comes to "stories" .... the more so since quite a substantial amount of those has been proven to be - using your expression - BS.
That is why I like Tom's forensic approach very much since it is a perfect aspect of what we try to do here: to give the collector the very best knowledge based on reproduceable facts, not on something that "might have been" or based on nice word twisting games.
Originality is not a result of semantic skills, it is something inherent to the piece itself.
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