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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Fid, post: 3838459, member: 7724&quot;]she was in the right place at the right time. born 1941, therefore not &quot;belasted&quot; by the Austrian history and as a woman she didn&#039;t have to prove what she&#039;s done during the Third Reich. especially Vienna had a longlasting history of anti-semitism and the universities were really &quot;cleansed&quot; of all Jews, Socialists etc.. </p><p>then comes her openness towards the simple people when starting to investigate for fakes of Vienna porcelain by inviting the public to bring forward their stuff to get it tested for free - a thing that no university academic would have done before her.</p><p>it seems her open mind opened many doors to hidden museum and private collections; and she was a hard worker and had her own head.</p><p>as for English - we don&#039;t have to forget that on the continent not many people spoke English till the 70s; in Austria it was still French that had status character.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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