When I found this forum, I actively sought out an antiques forum after getting an assessment on my dining table that I didn't think was correct on another forum. I had first posted it in a forum that was pretty much monopolized by one person giving her opinions and other mostly looking on, but not offering any info. I looked at the opinion person's profile and she had no professional experience, and yet no one on this forum seemed to want to suggest that her opinion could be anything but spot-on. What I like about this forum is that we all give our opinions, and if it turns out we got it wrong, we all learn from it and we're all better for it and no one gets humiliated or raked over the coals. It is all part of learning and ten heads are better than one.