C,
In my opinion you are doing well.
I started collecting in the 20th. century. 😉 Even though reproductions were produced soon after the end of WWII There were many reproductions produced between then and now, the 21st. century. 👨🦯 How well I wonder would I have done starting out now? We have all I imagine, had our share of "not what it's cracked up to be".
--dj--Joe