Three graduations from today's shortlist, all fact-checked against
primary sources rather than the feeds that surfaced them.
Porcelain Room (Aranjuez): held up and gained a story — Gricci's screwed
(not glued) plaques were an inherited Capodimonte technique, proven by
the near-identical Portici room that was dismantled and moved intact in
1866. Buen Retiro burned in 1812 under Wellington and reopened in 1817
as La Moncloa.
Sailor's Knife: the review found the find's own "113 years" figure is
unverified arithmetic (2026-1913) — Best Made only claims "a century".
Find corrected to match; the caveat is now in the review. The Gatun Lake
salvage story itself checks out independently of the marketing.
We Are Rewind: the "only cassette pressing of the 50th-anniversary
remaster" claim traces entirely back to the maker's press materials, so
the review attributes it rather than asserting it. No auto-reverse noted
as an honest limitation.
Shortlisted 11; review candidates: porcelain-room-aranjuez,
we-are-rewind-pink-floyd-cassette, best-made-sailors-knife.
Dedup caught 11 re-serves from 07-16 before writing, plus 2 items
re-served after being dropped on the bar yesterday (Samsung Music
Studio 5, Project AirLink pants) — dropped again on the same grounds.
Verification corrected the record on three finds: Gear Patrol's
Sailor's Knife hook was wrong (the century-old salvaged Cumarú is the
handle, pulled from the Panama Canal after 113 years under water — the
blade is new Robert Herder stainless); the Armenia "Donatello" is
studio-of, not autograph; the Transformers set is a September preorder.
Two vendor stats omitted as unverifiable. hock (A.Word.A.Day) dropped
on the alcohol rule despite a strong etymology story.
Amazon: 2 links added, 2 dropped on the same-model rule.
Sources: no maintenance changes; 3 Reddit subs held on 429 throttling
(not skipped — r/macapps succeeded from the same host). 2 new nominees.
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