Oh, definitely! The tricky thing about things that are "close" in reenacting is not that spectators get the wrong impression, because it's really too small a detail for most to catch, but that OTHER reenactors will get the idea that the whachamacall it you brought was cool. Then 2 events later you see 3 more, then 4... then next season they're all over camp like bunnies in Farmer Macgregor's garden. Then someone has to write an overly scholarly paper about why that widget isn't right, and it's another couple years before they're invisible again. Then someone buys a used one on the secondary market and it enters a second life...