Posted By:
barry arnoldScot,
You say that you don't think the 1910 Coupons can simply be relabelled as T206s since ACC is the Foundational document for the "T" classification scheme. I think that we can acknowledge key works as foundational yet move to make necessary changes when a consensus of scholarship demands it.
In a similar sense,I think that your own very important work has already demanded significant changes in important works such as the Monster which many see as foundational in its own niche.
Granted, we may well be still in the early stages of developing a consensus
regarding the Coupon---206 issue but it is becoming quite convincing already. At some future date, it will become apparent that relabelling is necessary methinks. Textual criticism is replete with examples of major and minor amendments/relabellings to foundational works.
I say these things with particular respect to you as your own work has done more to revamp and clarify T206 scholarship than any other and has already itself become the key foundational work for its niche.
Perhaps someone may argue that we need not relabel ACC but create a new
foundational volume in its place. Although there are a number of errors in
ACC, I do not think that they are numerous enough to require more than a
relabeling or reclarifying via an 'appendix' or what I have referred to elsewhere as an Errata section.
best,
barry