A vote!

[voyageur1688]

  The french part comes from norther france. But there is some greek, turk, and some native blood in the line.  So ya'll are doin pretty good. Yeah, the nose does have a bit of a bend in it dont it?
Voy

[Bulldog lady]

if the catogory is to help members with their persona-all well and good, if it is just to show off your keen eyesight then?? There are those of us or at least me that really need help to define who and how to present ourselves in correct manner.  We make the best of what we can and work to improve,( money talks) and you do not acquire the PROPER period correct overnight, don't care how creative you are and repeated (BS walks old saying) nit-pickin  does nothing but dampen at least my desire to go out and meet new friend and have fun. So guess this is a no count vote.

[voyageur1688]

  Bulldog Lady,
No ill intent was meant with this. I know that being all period correct does not come fast or easy. I have a long way to go myself, and know there are many things I still need to work on. As for money, I also know it is not cheap to do this, and believe me, more of my gear is either home made, scrounged or swapped for--as I am pretty well broke most of the time, and the rest of the time I am totally broke and am scrambling to get the money to pay my bills and put food on the table, and sometimes I have to choose between the 2. Things are slowing down for me for work here real soon and I need to save every pennie I can for winter and hope I can make it at least half way through on it--but its not looking good for me this year.
  However on the part of keen eyesight, sometimes you can look closely at a picture and find things that need improving or you may find something that you like and would like to add to your gear. To everyone, I say, If there is something in my pic that needs work, please let me know.
Voy

[Bulldog lady]

Voy  points well made-I too know what difference between cold or woodfire(depends if Jim gets off muzzleloader to go cut some) devel
And yes I do look at photos and try and glean what I can,  Guess this is just such a new and interesting period in my life want to do it all, correct or not, as don't figure gonna get to do it again, anyways real soon!     keep up good work guys/gals, learning a lot.  bulldog lady

[Honovi Mahala]

Keep going

[old salt]

Di
To be strictly correct is a learning experience and can dive you up a flipping wall. Here is the answer I gave another person.

You want to know or to let some know was an item available in a cretin time period, but was it also available in a cretin geographical location?
To be strictly correct, this has to be considered. The problem with that is we are finding that just because some thing is not mentioned in documentations or showed in early painting, dose not mean that is was not there.
So if a person asks was item X available. We should say yes/no, If yes then we should tell them if it was available or not in a cretin geographical location according to the documentations we have available.

[Bulldog lady]

Harry            makes sense esp after incident you related to this afternoon- so just gonna wear my britches, my leather shirt and anything else i can make and  find that some where in my time frame was available- thanks  Di