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Old 20th October 2013, 11:52 AM   #7
Dmitry
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Originally Posted by estcrh
Ibrahiim and all, I have found that museums in general do not want to be told that they are wrong, here is another example.
If you had put a PhD behind your name, they would have.
I've contacted the British National Maritime Museum in the past about a late 19th-early 20th c. child's toy sword [what the Germans would call a kinder degen] that they hath mislabeled as a US Navy officer's dirk. The curator emailed me and thanked for correcting their description...but they never changed it on their website.
There are other incorrectly described items on their website, but I never bothered to write to them again.
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