Editorial policy

Sourcing

Entries are built from a named printed reference and cite the page. Where the source quotes an earlier authority, that chain is shown too, so a claim traced back through Chaffers to Gillingwater's History of Lowestoft (1790) is presented as exactly that, and not as first-hand observation.

Corrections

If a transcription here misreports the source, it is a defect and will be fixed. Every entry carries the page number and the scan so you can check it yourself.

Reuse of the plates

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What is never published

• No invented first-hand experience. Nobody here has handled these pieces and no entry will imply otherwise.
• No ratings or reviews, real or fabricated, and no review structured data.
• No valuations. This is not an appraisal service.
• No claim taken from another website and restated as fact.
• No mark drawn, reconstructed or inferred. Either the source engraved it or the entry says it did not.
• No grouping asserted beyond the source's wording. A tag quotes the phrase that produced it.

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