I dislike "artefact appraising", unless its like a game setting with a literal analyse ability (not like here, but in an actual game). Because yes, you can spot fakes from real antiques but not 100%. And even if you know an antique is old, if there are no manufacturing marks it becomes near impossible to verify how old, because back then too people made fakes of older stuff. Or old styles made a brief comeback etc.
The whole thing about learning the ENTIRE story of an item from just looking at it is complete bogus.