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The primary root source is Coach catalogue material. Records are extracted from that material as facts, then cross-checked through a separate extraction chain. Because both chains can share the same catalogue root, agreement is a consistency check rather than a second independent source.

Where a catalogue record and another recorded source conflict, or the extraction chains disagree, the record is held for review. It is not averaged away or resolved in favour of the more convenient answer. Source counts describe recorded references, not necessarily distinct roots.

Facts are recorded; catalogue wording, scans and product photography are not republished. Decoder rules describe what this site's tool reads. They do not prove that every coverage boundary is universal history.

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