[Runscott]

I wanted to say this in the 'other' thread, but felt like it might de-rail things.

We were given eyeballs for a reason - it actually helps us survive. I can look through a pile of pictures and pick out the ones who look like people I know or recognize. Yes, some are questionable, but I can almost always tell you if a picture is NOT someone. I don't begin such an exercise by first looking at a long list of reasons why this person is or isn't someone, formulating my opinion by 'provenance' prior to looking at the image.

The 2nd image is Buck Leonard - I'm told that and I believe it. So I look at the first image and because I'm human and have working eyeballs, I can tell that the first image is NOT him. Even if he were wearing a fake mustache and a clown nose, I could tell it wasn't him.

Now, if the first image had looked like the second image, I would THEN look at the details (such as ears pointing in whatever directions), and decide 'No', it isn't him - even though it looks like him, the details are wrong.

Finally, if it still looks like him, I would then look at the provenance - for instance, the back of the photo might say that it is 'Joseph Doe' who was a jazz musician in Paris, and the photo comes from the estate of a French family. Obviously, the provenance is telling me that these two guys just happen to look a helluva lot alike, but they aren't the same person.

The AJC Dag was evaluated backwards. No one ever got around to using their eyeballs.