That line about tossing it in a drawer got me, because I would have done the exact same thing after telling my spouse it was junk. It is a real gut drop when something you blew off turns out to maybe be the real deal, and the glove worry is normal but I would not beat yourself up over it now. Even if the museum says it is just a modern copy, you still did right by sending it in, so try to enjoy the wait instead of dreading it.

Back in 2019 I killed four zucchini plants before I figured out my problem, and it came from one comment on a local Facebook group, not from any of the 40 blog posts I read. I had been mulching right up to the stem, and some guy in Beaverton told me that was rotting the base. Ten seconds of advice beat ten hours of reading. Now when something looks off, I skip the search bar and just post a photo with my zone and soil type right in the title. The answers come faster and they actually fit my yard instead of some garden in Ohio.