Are the 1430s the most likely date range for the Zodiac drawings?

[Mark Knowles]

the VM does not use any of the post-1430 fashion Lauber does use.

Clarification as to what is precisely meant by that could be interesting.

So my assessment was made after I set up an experiment to prevent myself from cherry picking and I tried to take in several variables. This is the opposite of what's happening here.

Well, you didn't do any statistical analysis of the resultant dataset, whereas I did. In fact you did the cherry picking by asserting that some data could be excluded as it was "non-manuscript art" as if that distinction was relevant. You also seem to discount the Lauber examples, though I don't see a good reason for doing so. You also seem to treat multiple instances from the same source as only one instance, what is the justification for that? All this cherry picking that you did served to justify the earlier dating which you had already decided upon. I suggested using the complete dataset which is the opposite of what you chose to do.